Elijah Jaquez-Starks completed his BFA in Photography at University of Hartford. He began to practice photography when he bought his first film camera in 2016.After looking at Pictures from Home by Larry Sultan and Latoya Ruby Frazier’s The Notion of Family, the artist was inspired to document his own experience of growing up in a single parent household with his mother and sister. The work consists of everyday moments within the home. Portraits of his family and self allow us to enter behind closed doors into a home filled with warmth and trust. In his spare time Elijah allows himself to be lost in crowds while photographing the underground music scene. He draws influence from the rawness of this scene, and giving space to his subjects to tell their own story.