I only point the camera, you are the story.

I prefer faces and movement in available light.

I always want you to look like yourself and to somehow benefit from our time.

Everyone who points a camera knows we need faces, the faces don't need us.

The camera records mechanistically, intrusively; individuals strive to artfully bridge that space.

I'm interested in what may broadly be called wild/spontaneous and passing beauty.

I'm trying to see and make humane images of people whose faces I find interesting.

I am not a technician or retoucher,

I admire their results sometimes, but their craft is not what I do.

I hesitate to use the word art, especially in regard to my own somewhat documentary style; but a remarkable face in an interesting moment is what I'm trying to see.

You will recognize yourself in my images, even at your most accessorized and festooned, I prefer to see you.

Most of you are making a memory trove of how you were, and that has merit in and of itself.

I saw the most famous face of her era the other day, and you would never know. So her scrapbook shows how she was along her way.

There is a living in this for a few, the rest of us are trying to make art and memories.


Good luck to you,

remember the camera only ever records the surface symmetries and reflections; your character, your inner beauty remains hidden to the lens.

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