Jade Borchers

Jade Borchers is an artist from Maui, Hawai’i. Growing up in a popular tourist destination, she developed a perspective that contrasts the outsider’s view of Hawaiʻi as a paradise with the lived reality of those who call it home. This contrast informs much of her work, including her most recent photography project, Carrying Home.

As the daughter of a Filipino mother and a White father, she is interested in the in-between spaces, those shaped by migration, memory, and questions of home.

Her images range from intimate portraits to quiet observations of environment and place, often guided by themes of absence, nostalgia, and cultural continuity. Her practice blends documentary and conceptual approaches, and she is particularly invested in community-based narratives, self-portraiture, and the visual language of everyday life.

Beyond photography, Borchers explores other themes through painting and drawing. She has made paintings based on her photography to further examine the emotions and narratives within each image.