A Portrait

is a composite of a moment in time between two people, both projecting, drawn by light, witnessed by a machine. The photographer renders a likeness but does not capture a person; what the image holds is a record of what passed between two people at a specific moment, shaped as much by the photographer's projection as by the subject's. It is representational without being representative.

These portraits exist outside any single project. Some began with a commission: musicians who needed work that reflected something true rather than something marketable, subjects whose practice I wanted to engage with through the camera. Some grew from encounters that continued: a stranger met briefly on the street, later invited to a sitting, where we talked and made pictures and found out what we were to each other. Some are moments with people I know well, where the light and the circumstances and something between us converged into a frame worth keeping.

What connects them is not subject matter or setting but the quality of attention brought to the encounter. I am not simply documenting a likeness. I am attempting to transport the moment of connection between us, to you.