One World

One World I cover many terrains as a photographer. I work as an editorial and portrait photographer with an emphasis on family and children portraiture, a career that requires my full attention for 10 months out of the year. I set aside that other two month to make my own work and to travel the world in search of new faces. As a mother, I also bring to these experiences a profound sensitivity for our humanness. I am drawn to the simple quality of just being in the world. My travels have taken me to places around the globe and I made the work as a way of exploring other cultures. I kept adding to my photographic inventory without a clear vision of where the work would go. For the last ten years, I have been looking, and now I am seeing. It started with an instant of recognition, of familiarity of a gesture, an expression, or a person, and I began to see that we are much more one world, than individuals. I began to see clearly that we are all experiencing the same joy, the same sorrow, the same routines, the same commitment to family and I began to see the universality of being human. My series, One World, features two photographs, captured years apart without any connection to the other image. The surprising similarities within images that I have been creating over the years, speaks a powerful truth and lesson about who we are.