I Dreamt The Dream...

   Too many are following pre-existing ways of seeing, which has led today's photography and photographers down a path into a deeply homogeneous practice that places familiarity over enquiry, and the probable over the impossible. To put it more simpler, they fail to dream, or even see what's right there in front of them. Adding to this indecent dullness is the majority of photographers...and viewers who give too much weight to the past. This is a narcissistic thought process has led too many photographers to chase the moment that has been. To somehow inject themselves into history. All of this has led to an easy, convenient, and self-serving interpretation of what modern photography is today... tediously boring.

  As for me I want the viewer to feel stuck somewhere between a dream and a nightmare. The unexpected, the shocking, and the nervousness is far more exciting in a photograph, then knowing how it ends... much like a tv show you've seen a dozen times before. There is an eruption of fear, anxiety and depression on the faces of todays subway riders and I want to show that in my photos. 

  My subway photos slip in and out of focus often leaving the passengers in my temporal wake. Darkness is my friend, and only the slight glimmer of light is allowed in the world that I created, the world I see myself living in. I want the viewer to actually engage their brains and give thought to what could be happening in the shadows.