Photography is the art form of distorting time and I want to immortalize the subjects within the frame of my work. Relationships are the artery of my work. No matter the time, person, place, or thing, relationships hold them all together. A picture is a person you’ve always known, it’s a place where you’ve spent all your life. Everyone looks for these connections within the world. I want my photographs to create a stream, a path, a portal to connect through the work.

So far, my work has revolved around the relationship between those closest to me and my relationship with myself and my body. How does mental health affect my relationships? What about being clean? Will it change my work every minute I feel a shift in something?  Intimacy is highly valued in my work and I seek to capture this even through unknown subjects. I feel as though I am going through a transformative period in my work. I had remained with my head down, focusing on what I was comfortable with. Now, I have looked around and I see all these paths and I want to travel down every one to find connections I never would have had the opportunity to.

Why does it matter to seek and to look for these relationships? If humans have no relationships we have nothing. You would become the only human left on Earth and your world would be dull and lifeless. There would be no love, compassion, hate, nostalgia, these create connections to people, places, or things, but without our relationships to these things they don’t matter. Photography is an immortalisation, a human, a place, something that was once there.