I’ve always gravitated towards faces. When I learnt how to draw it was through isolating different parts of the face. The fold of the ear, the wrinkles on the lips, the texture in the eye. All I wanted to do was draw faces.

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Faces tell stories. They share ideas and feeling, even when they’re trying to hide them. Especially when they’re trying to hide. Our faces are our connection to one another. It is the manifestation of our inner most being. Some have mastered the art of hiding their face. I for one, don’t think I ever will. My face betrays me. But it also connects me, and helps me move through the world with an openness. A willingness to put pretence aside, and to be as I am.

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I don’t always take the time to see the people around me though. To really see them, and what they are saying without speaking. Photography helps me to slow down, and focus. To be an honest witness. To develop a craft consumed by the idea of perfectly containing a brief moment in time with integrity. Allowing those emotions, that reality, to become permanent.

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The birth of someone new. The loss of someone loved. The declaration of unending love. The creation of new ideas, new dreams. These hilltop moments create the outlines of the shapes which build our lives. They are not everything, but they are significant. They are also enveloped by deep, complicated emotion. Pain, joy, love, anger, sadness; they can all exist within the same moment and experience. Each one needing to be honoured, and expressed, whether we like it or not.

These feelings are the lifeblood of a story well told, and a life well lived. Experiencing these allow us to know that we are alive, and we are being active participants in our own narrative.

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Being able to capture these stories, capturing a glimpse of your very essence in this brief moment in time, that is why I take photos. I see these stories as part of a much more important scaffolding through which one's identity is constructed. The way you smile, when you really smile. How your eyes give way to your cheeks. And you forget any expectations of who you should be, and instead express who you are. That is what I want to capture. That is the story I want to tell.​​