Documentary Photography

Context
Most moments don’t announce themselves. A kid waiting in a doorway. A handful of coffee cherries drying in the sun. An empty diner booth on a gray afternoon. They pass in seconds and are gone. This collection is about holding onto them. It runs from coffee farms in Central America to a Berlin street corner, from a ski bus to a barn door, and shows real people in real places, un-staged and unpolished.

Approach
I show up, stay quiet and let things happen. No direction, no setups, just paying attention. Much of this work was shot on film, where every frame counts and patience is the whole job. Black and white strips a scene down to light and feeling. Color holds onto the details that place a moment in time. Either way, the goal is the same. Put simply, what will remain exists only in what we preserve.