Approximately one hundred and seventeen billion people have walked this earth, each with dreams, fears, and motivations that have shaped the world we live in today. Yet how many of these dreams were remembered? How many fears were overcome, or ambitions realized? In the immense scale of human history, how can any individual truly leave a lasting impact? This portfolio strives to explore the tension between individual significance and the overwhelming scale of human existence. History so often reduces humanity into crowds and numbers, forgetting the names of the people that helped to shape it.  

Using photography as my medium, I strive to visualize this contradiction between scale and individual impact. The goal is not to explore whether individual lives ultimately matter, but to force confrontation with scale and the uncertainty that stems from it.