It is onIt is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.Paul Strand.

Photographing the human face: documenting the lives and experiences of individuals through intimate portraits and captured moments. The details revealed in the subjects’ faces highlighting the innate beauty all human beings, each face the unravelling mystery of a life lived. Time cracks and weathers the skin. Every wrinkle, line, blemish, teardrop, touch or smile. The lifeblood of memory and experience that courses through our veins.

Every image has a story to tell. Stories of grief and joy, fear and happiness, terror and love. In short, stories of people. The intrinsic value of every human life and deed, however mundane, is displayed before us. Each photograph a moment captured: the old woman lost in thought, the dancer lost in the moment or the grieving mother lost in her sorrow. Even the old man, gazing back through the years, accepting life’s hand with silent dignity, is lost in a lifetime of memories. It is these emotional frailties that make us all so uniquely, desperately human.

And what of death? It’s the only certainty of life: It’s what drives us to achieve, to leave our mark on the world and on the lives of others. Life IS death. And so images of life must portray grief and loss. But not only that, as each heartbeat moves us through time, we gather our feelings and experiences around us. They shape us, and make us who we are. All human beings have an inherent beauty; the unique qualities that both define us as individuals and draw us together as a people.

Although a multitude of stories lie within the pictures, waiting to be told, each and every image is open to interpretation by the observer. Each picture reflects the differing social and cultural contexts of our lives. Each face a mirror of a world in which its owner lives, reflecting back the lives, loves and heartache of those around them.