P O R T R A I T S
the north shore
graduation of college
in the wood
sudio
inner city
in the rain
black sand beach
autumn evening
grand marias
stillwater hillside
two harbors
band / live music
the pianist
notes inspired by the troumbly family
I want to come into the quiet spaces of people’s lives and tell those stories, seek earnestly what isn’t said but will always be remembered and remember them this way, with imagery you actually want in a book or a frame because it tells of real life—the bread rising, spilling sink water, dirty feet in the garden. The things that only humans know and do with all the might of our ordinary being.
Reality is the makeup of storytelling, and storytelling is a way of making meaning accessible to one another, unifying us in a deeper understanding of life as a whole. My job as a photojournalist is not to make moments. It is to honor the moments as they are by noticing, and wait eagerly as meaning unfolds.
This session was a pursuit of that mission. It is a pursuit that I plan to carry forward with every shoot I do. It begins by asking questions differently, by listening to actual people better and listening to influence less. By placing my own idealistic visions aside so reality can breathe, and breath always means life.