I’m what Cornell Capa considered to be a “concerned photographer.” These days, just about any photographer who is sensitive to what feels like a world of multiplying social injustices must qualify. I have a particular interest in protecting the environment as well, and the two go hand-in-hand: we’re beginning a long march, so to speak, toward a period of global climgration, which is impacting and exacerbating a host of critical issues. My participation in the Women’s March in Washington, among other human rights events, and a relationship to members of the Lakota Sioux in Standing Rock, ND, as well as the Navajo in the Four Corners region, has produced photography that intends to influence in viewers an empathetic position. Recent time spent in Afghanistan was an intense experience that further drives my sense of urgency to capture and convey the cultural heritage of fragile societies that are on the brink of either destruction or implosion.
