I’m not as active with a camera as I once was. It feels pointless with so many photos flooding the world online and social media. It’s as though none of them matter—that each image has lost its appeal and, more sadly, its importance. I still enjoy working on my personal projects because the subjects and topics interest me, and frankly, I don’t care if they interest anyone else.
I still love photography as an art form, though now it feels more like a nostalgic reflection of a time when meaningful photojournalism allowed a talented photographer to make a difference with a single image—not so much now.
That was always my only goal with a camera: to show a different perspective on something no one else had thought about or considered. The problem these days is that no one pauses to truly look at a photograph; instead, they simply scan past it with a flick of their thumb. This isn’t the world I grew up in, nor the world I’d like to participate in—especially when it comes to capturing, using, and telling a story through a camera lens. How can anyone truly learn or experience anything—visit another part of the world, or explore the dimensions of society and culture of other peoples—by simply glancing at and scrolling past something on a social media feed? Photojournalisim is becoming a lost art- I shall miss it. That being said, you wont find many of my past works here and I’m not selling or licensing my images individually. Visit Getty Images to see or lease them. I’m focusing on other projects some of which may be displayed here-or not.