My photography career has been marked by several significant sacrifices and hardships that have tested my strength and commitment. Early on in my life, I had faced significant challenges that had cause me to choose between many things. These moments, though they were painful, have become pivotal turning points in my life and have taught me grit, importance of adaptability, and resilience. Financial sacrifices have been the biggest struggle in my life. What started as my parents getting divorced, to my mother meeting someone new, to having us move to a completely different state where my bother and I knew of no one, lead to one of the biggest changes in my life: eviction. Getting evicted from my home was a life-changing experience that had forced me to confront the fragility of stability, causing my sense of security to shatter. This feeling had first started when my mother’s new husband up and left. I saw it coming, but my mother did not. That same day I got the note about the eviction. My sister and I were the only one’s home when the cops arrived. I didn’t want my younger sister to see that, so I told her to go to her room. That following summer before my start of college we had to go. I had found myself engaging with feelings of helplessness and shame, but it had also strikes a sense of determination to rebuild my life and not allow for that mistake to happen again. In the aftermath of all that, I had to adapt. I moved in with a family friend for the summer and had started to focus on my future. This experience in my life had shown me that throughout all the hardships and sacrifices I have made along the way have lead me to where I am at now, the peak of my career as a sports photographer.

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