The Hamptons, NY
August 21-23, 2026
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There is a photograph of a distorted tree trunk careening towards the South Pacific. 4,000 miles away, a Peruvian immigrant takes an axe to the Yunza tree in their backyard in Moriches, New York. Children shriek and people smile. Some of them are related by blood, some by labor. In any and every economy, success is measured by neither but relentlessly consumptive of both.
Kelly Nano-Miranda (b. 2001) is a Peruvian-American photographer from the East End of Long Island. Her work offers a personal and diasporic view of the authority, autonomy, and performance of labor. Nano-Miranda’s photographs clarify the opacity of the socioeconomic structures that mark the places where she is from.
Her visual language is grounded in repetition and form, combining the subconscious, spiritual, and socio-political. In the Hamptons, Nano-Miranda performs domestic labor alongside her family. She emphasizes the physical manifestation of innumerable windows cleaned and landscapes manicured in their bodies. Her father’s thumbnail on the hand across his chest will never grow back completely. In Peru, Nano-Miranda wonders, “is this what a tourist would do?” As she negotiates the paradox in being of both, and neither place, she is reaching and searching for the place in which she might eventually see herself.
Nano-Miranda is an incoming candidate for a Master of Arts in Photography at Yale University. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and at Chorus Projects.
- Avery Wilcox