Fiction

My photographs are like the first sentence of a short story, only the ending can never be certain. I pair images together to enhance the stories I sense in the emotional landscape around me. I fracture the story into diptychs so the line where the two images meet becomes the seam between fact and fiction, reality and longing, the universal and the personal. The major theme running through Fiction is the struggle to be an individual in an increasingly homogeneous society. I am fascinated by the strong emotions that emanate from people isolated on the streets and in social settings. Occasionally the presence of manmade objects is powerful enough that people become superfluous. My life is intertwined with the people and objects I photograph. By focusing my camera on certain people, I am making them a part of my life. These people catch my attention, because their appearances and actions touch something in my past or confront some of my concerns. It seems natural that these images be diptychs joining my real life with the imagined lives of others.