Everyone, Anywhere

In these images I reduce an image to its bare essentials: a gestalt, a gesture. What is the minimum information that generates the image of a person? What visual details generate an emotional response with the viewer? When we strip away extraneous information, like time and place, nationality and race, what is the viewer’s emotional takeaway from the abstractions captured in an image? What becomes apparent is that a certain level, the details don't matter: the images are of every person, anywhere. The visual effects in these images are achieved entirely in-camera using long shutter speeds in bright sunlight. I also do not use image-processing software to alter or enhance images in post-production. What started at first as a photographic experiment turned into a metaphor that for me expresses a certain universal human experience.