Over the years, I’ve done it all. I am a painter. A sculptor. An avid art historian. An art lover. And above all, my one love is photography. Two amazing people have said things the truly define how I look at photography. Richard Avedon once said  “My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.” This holds do true in my work. I love photography, especially portraiture, because I like to get the chance to see something of myself in my subject. And to be able to pull emotion from them, to see who they really are. Building on that idea, the writer Susan Sontag wrote,
“To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” Both of these ideas are always in the back of my mind the second the viewfinder of my camera approaches my eye.