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My passion is to photograph people. From strangers on the streets to my closest friends and family, I try to capture what is always seen, but rarely noticed. Everyday things pass in front of our eyes, often without our awareness or appreciation.

I want to evoke in my viewers a feeling of recognition: a recogition of familiar emotions in each person, a recognition of themselves in another, and therefore connecting viewer and subject...through me. I try to record life in all its beauty as well as its cruelty, but I don't want to just document. I want to show the world as I experience it, through my eyes: a look of openness and trust, or of guarded insecurity and vulnerability. I see the camera as a window into the soul. The curiosity and innocence of a child, the frustrated anger of a teenage boy, the pain of living dulled and fueled by alcohol in a homeless man, the love of an elderly man for his wife of many years...I try to capture the people as they really are, at the moment when they show their true selves.

I use photography to reassert my existence, to prove to myself that I exist, to confirm my memories and for keeping them alive when my memory starts to fade. It has been said that every photograph can be seen as a self-portrait. I try to take every picture with that in mind. Photography helps me in my search for a greater understanding of myself and of other people.