Artist Statement

     When I think about my purpose with photography and what matters most to me in my work, the first thing that pops into my head is showcasing authentic beauty.  To say I want the viewers of my work to see beauty would be too generic.   I don’t mean overly photo shopped Barbie-style beauty. I mean raw, real, beauty that is sometimes hard for the untrained eye to see.  My favorite moments to capture and share with the world are the moments in-between that make the viewer feel a rush of love and nostalgia.  For example, they see a photo of mine of family walking through a field, focused on the mother’s hand clasped around her child’s, and a flurry of emotions hit them and they are reminded of the simplistic beauty of holding their own mother’s hand as a child.  My aesthetic feels gritty and grainy and warm and cinematic.  The moments don’t always have to be perfectly perfect.  I make those imperfect moments into the best frames of my photography.  I think the true punctum of my images is that moment in time that I capture a bride and groom on their wedding day laughing about something silly that just happened or that spark in someone’s eyes when they think about a loved one.