From a very young age I remember my father and cameras. Maybe it is from him that I acquired my lifelong interest in the visual world, the detail, the colors.  Photography is a way to see; to pay attention to the aspects and elements of a scene; to hold memory as it fades.  My father built a darkroom with me in our home. I can see the two of us there developing images and a relationship. The original photos in-with one exception-Here and Gone are his. I have used them to convey that lost world.  I want my photography to reveal the creation of intimacy with the world around me.  To find balance and strength in what I see and how I see it.  

The work here represents both a documentary approach and a more intimate one, although all photography is about the photographer’s heart and mind.   

BA Art History, Northwestern University