Quotes From Appearance

These photos narrate my inner thoughts on our existence, and it's bizarreness. As Berger wrote, pictures quote from appearance, so my thoughts wondered; "if abstraction could be found in a day to day sense by a camera alone, would that not make the abstract just as real as our subjective experience of normality?" My drive as a photographer has always been to share the burning questions I have of reality and what it is. Every photo I take is a prod at the lumpy mess we call life. More recently, I have become very inspired by the surrealist movement, and particularly the painters, such as Magritte and Jeffery Smart. Their expressions of reality floating in these in-between spaces inspired me to chase that same notion in my street photography. Every surreal photo I can take without software manipulation remains a prod at normality. I want the viewer to question their sense of place and time when they view my images.