How We Live
I photograph the small-scale drama of everyday life, things we pass by countless times without stopping to give them a second thought or look. These are portraits of people through the places they inhabit, home and away from home, life captured as still life. I’m inspired by the seemingly banal; the mundane that hides subtle clues and hints about how our species lives. The everyday object possesses a talisman-like quality and forms the narrative of the human experience. The images are empty and uninhabited, yet one senses a human presence just out of reach.
My photographs don’t tell a story as much as they ask a question about the experience of others. These intimate, frozen moments become pieces in a jigsaw puzzle that reflects our culture and how we choose to go about our lives. The viewer takes on the role of voyeur looking in from the outside, peering through the black edges framing each image. As I explore both public and private environments I approach this series intuitively, and shoot with a visceral response to the scene I see before me. I consider this series a diary, an ongoing visual record of observations made while traveling through life interacting with the world around me.
I photograph the small-scale drama of everyday life, things we pass by countless times without stopping to give them a second thought or look. These are portraits of people through the places they inhabit, home and away from home, life captured as still life. I’m inspired by the seemingly banal; the mundane that hides subtle clues and hints about how our species lives. The everyday object possesses a talisman-like quality and forms the narrative of the human experience. The images are empty and uninhabited, yet one senses a human presence just out of reach.
My photographs don’t tell a story as much as they ask a question about the experience of others. These intimate, frozen moments become pieces in a jigsaw puzzle that reflects our culture and how we choose to go about our lives. The viewer takes on the role of voyeur looking in from the outside, peering through the black edges framing each image. As I explore both public and private environments I approach this series intuitively, and shoot with a visceral response to the scene I see before me. I consider this series a diary, an ongoing visual record of observations made while traveling through life interacting with the world around me.