I am a fine art documentary photographer. My artistic intent is to confront
viewers in their personal spaces to move the position of “Otherness” closer to
their normative construction of self. My photography continues to evolve as it
interrogates the spaces of race, gender, sexual orientation, ageism, class, and
religion.
My visual obsession has embraced the documentary portrait. I attempt to locate
and capture the essence of the sitter’s complicated state of mind and state of
being. Ideally, the portrait within the frame renders the totality of the sitter’s
emotional range and the complexity of his or her situation. Fear, curiosity,
resignation, resilience, achievement and failure are integral to the body language and facial expression. The images become two-dimensional provocations of
silent statements and are unavoidable confrontations between the viewer and sitter.
