Statement

I make photographs to create meaning by editing my world into fragments that when removed from the larger environment, speak even greater truths. I use my camera as a means to explore both familiar and unfamiliar worlds, relating with people and places to gain an understanding of the harmony and discord that combine to create engaging images. I aim to separate subject and content to explore their relationship or the friction that may at times result in unforeseen meaning.

I started by photographing architecture and urban landscapes, but I felt my interest in these stationery subjects begin to wane. I expanded to integrate people into my work and now the challenge never ends. Whether intimate portraits or people within the social landscape, I attempt to probe below the surface to reveal circumstances perhaps unknown even to the subjects themselves. These revelations satisfy the questions that I carry with me about life and at the same time confound me further, leading me on a constant quest to express the inexpressible.

While my work is deeply personal, I want to lead viewers to create their own narrative as I hope that my work uncovers hidden emotions and touches on universal experiences which bring them to alternate interpretations. I am satisfied when my photographs reflect viewers to themselves as complex individuals, as I am myself revealed in the process of creating them. I wish to invite viewers to participate in my work and to come away asking questions about how they fit into their own worlds.