The South can be a very simple but also complicated place, filled with history and beauty and pain. This selection of work comes from a series in progress, “Of The South”. Exploring the south where I have spent my entire life, engaging and documenting the people I encounter.
Hopefully capturing the unique and diverse characters that make up the southern culture.
I am fascinated with the power of portrait and documentary photography, the connection one makes with their subject, the silent dance that evolves, watching the masks fade away. I strive to create a space that is safe and disarming, so the subject can be themselves and begin connecting and sharing the present moment. It is truly a synchronous moment of vulnerability and trust.
In my process, I only use natural light and no additional equipment.
I am drawn to the challenge of finding that complementing and fitting location with just the right touch of light. My subject stands in their own space and time; I patiently wait for all the elements to collide and collapse into a shared single moment.
"The most significant feature of your work is its impact on the viewer who becomes part of the project not as an observer but as the subject the depicted individuals observe. Eye contact, directness, and inner exposure in front of the camera seems that demands a similar reaction from the viewer who seems to be questioned, and this fact leads the viewer to associations connected with various notions like identity, human relationships, representation, etc."
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