I have not always been a photographer, though I have always liked cameras. A chance encounter with a Nude Photography workshop started me on a roller coaster journey to understand Photography, Art and myself. While I am still working full time in my professional capacity, the rest of my time is dedicated to Art and Photography.
I am frustrated to find that most photography forums and magazines focus on the technical aspects of photography while I am so much more interested in making and seeing photographs that trigger something inside, that have "something else".
This is one way of dealing with the frustration - writing about some of these things myself, even if they are mostly for myself.
I photograph people - almost exclusively. I am interested in photographing people in two distinct states of being – when in the most public and in the most intimate places.
I like to photograph strangers that are usually not aware of my existence and if they are, it is usually too late for them to "prepare" for the shot. I usually look for them in cities. Cities are where people gather. The streets, buildings and sites are only background. When I photograph, people are at once individual and universal somehow. The mystery of photography is evident whenever a resulting image, which I know is derived from reality, becomes something totally fictional for me through a process I do not understand.
At the very other extreme, I use the camera to penetrate people's most intimate space. Through open dialog I try to learn who they are and gain access to what goes on in their head and through this process try to make the camera disappear.