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SURRENDER
Some of my favorite photographs happen at the edge of things. On the bow of a boat, the city still visible on the horizon but the water already pulling you somewhere else. That in-between space is where people are most themselves, not quite arrived, not quite gone, and the body knows it before the mind does. I look for those moments. The way someone turns toward the light without thinking. The way a fringed hem moves when no one is controlling it. The way a body goes soft when it finally stops performing. Every image I make is a story the body tells when it thinks no one is watching.
PRESENCE
I photograph feelings, and I use the body to say what words can't. Four different women. Four different worlds. The same truth in all of them: she is not thinking about the camera. She is thinking about something only she knows, or nothing at all, and that is exactly where I want her. Presence is not a pose. It is what happens when someone stops managing how they look and simply exists inside the frame.
SOVEREIGN
I have photographed women on mountains and in deserts, on floors and in doorways, beside wine glasses at the end of a long night and at the edge of something they haven't named yet. What I keep finding, in all of it, is the same thing. There is a moment in every session when a woman stops thinking about how she looks and starts thinking about something true. Her spine changes. Her jaw changes. Something behind the eyes opens up. I wait for the moment each person carries privately to rise to the surface. When it comes, I press the shutter.