Stolen Moments

I explore the streets, with my camera, sometimes looking and sometimes waiting for what I think of as, “Stolen Moments.” On a good day, this is where creating and receiving go hand in hand. When I feel, I am truly interacting with this moment in front of my lens. I photograph moments of strangers, stealing that moment with or without being caught by them. I sometimes capture a moment of the person lost in thought as if they have forgotten that they are in a public space, they have gone to some inward place. Yet, they are in a very public space, the street. Usually in transition from where they have been to where they are going. Sometimes I get caught as if I am a pick pocket and I was seen with my hand in their pocket, caught, taking that moment while other times it’s as if I was never there, and I slip away. My relationship as an artist to art and particularly to the cinematic or photographic form is the turning of the notion of an image as “something seen” to “a way of seeing”. My work in photography is to focus on caring for the image and the subjects I capture. A central theme for me in this work is an image creation and then a symbolic meaning explored. A story still unfolding.