Tshay creates films across documentary, fiction, and hybrid forms, using both moving and still images to “imagine a world where Black people have full creative agency over their lives,” she says. Her short film Proof documents Jamaican funerary traditions and the experience of loss and grief as the artist grapples with the murder of her older sister. Her first narrative short, gales., was screened at BlackStar Film Festival, American Black Film Festival, and Pan African Film Festival, among others. Her photography practice seeks “sites of exaggeration and saturation” to embellish what her subjects typically hide or downplay, working primarily with family and friends in trusting and playful collaborations. Tshay earned an MA in anthropology from University College London and a BA in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.
