My Photography, My Art

Art I like, a lot of different mediums I enjoy, but photography I love. My work centers mostly on people, as they are, in all of their complexities, my biggest inspiration. I love witnessing when someone is honest to themselves, as it shows in their ideas, their actions, their words, all fueled by their emotions. It is the moment where they express whatever it is that makes them unique, and I try to capture that with my camera, subtle as it may be.

Sometimes my work is intentional—seeking out the right scenery for the right person to best fit an emotion; and sometimes my work is something found. Either way, my pictures are not blunt representations of a single emotion that we describe through a word, but rather, the moment of feeling each emotion.

As I’m often reserved in person, I allow my pictures to speak for me. While I’m trying to express the emotions I see in other people, it’s often a reflection of what I want to say, and the emotions I can best relate to. Sometimes the entire thing is contrived to fit what I can’t seem to say right otherwise. My pictures are often dramatic through contrast, angling, and sometimes style so I can present the mood the way I feel it—since I often can’t express it in words.

I like not what’s lit to speak alone, but the shadows and highlights together; my shadows are often just as important as the lit areas. With them I create moody shapes to simplify the picture, allowing the focus to be clear. The black is a deep black to convey more depth. Without it, both the picture and idea feels flat and incomplete.

My work is a constant metamorphosis of myself as I learn and grow and change—my visual representation of my life through someone else’s. And although constantly shifting and changing, my purpose in photography is still the same.