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To me, photography is a journey of remembering. It’s a an everlasting time capsule of the life’s aliveness. It captures the “before,” it celebrates the “arrival,” it honors the “becoming.” It cherishes “what is,” as that too becomes “what once was” as one moment stretches into everlasting time.  To witness through the lens is to honor a transformative journey, as no image is exactly like another… just as a feeling evokes through a subject’s body or eyes, a wind blows, a leaf falls, and the sun makes its way behind a cloud. There is so much beauty in life, constantly changing and evolving. To me, photography takes a glimpse of momentary beauty and gives it eternal life. 

Why film photography?

Simply put, it evokes the mystery. Film photography takes away the option for instant gratification, as neither I nor the subject can “review” the photos on site. It brings us both into the ceremony of the present… into trusting each other and the magic of the unknown. Film photography offers a rawness that tells its own story. It offers a transformational experience for the muse to awaken. It strips us of the stories we tell ourselves about “looking good” and opens a portal for the truth of the moment to safely and vulnerably express.