About Noticing

As a recovering addict with PTSD the camera is the one thing that allows my existence out in the world to be with fewer edges. Shooting in a city like New York, and traveling to places like Habana or Tijuana, I add extra edges by adding people. People make me nervous. There is an endless battle between my taking a picture of someone and their noticing. This fear has caused me to look and savor moments of depersonalization without dehumanization, anonymity without obscurity. What I have presented is my best work, showing the relationship between myself, someone hungry for but apprehensive of connection, and the world, seemingly terrifying and immutably beautiful.