Existential Street Photography

Photography for me started therapeutically: I experienced life as a movie, incredibly beautiful, but something I only watched and wasn't really a part of. Struggling with feelings of anxiety and alienation in my dealings with strangers on the street, I decided to start taking pictures. That way, I could share my experience and feel less lonely, as well as take control of life. Photography is my way to direct the film that is my life. While shot candidly and spontaneously, my images do not seek to document that which is on the other side of the lens. They are crafted to reflect things we long for. I hope to show you that nostalgia, love, mystery and terror, the things we usually seek in cinema or recreations of reality, can also be found in the everyday. Photography is a way of creating meaning and celebrating the individual perspective. It is about showing that there is something incredibly and powerfully beautiful in the fact that we are ultimately alone in our experience. A camera gives us the freedom to, through nothing but simple directed observance, turn everyday life into everything we want it to be. I call this existential street photography, primed to express the individual and subjective. Like the philosophy of the same name, it is concerned primarily with the concept of radical freedom and the construction of meaning. Life to me is about a story or narrative that we ourselves have to create.