I really don't like taking photographs.

Which is funny, because I consider myself a photographer. When people ask me what I do, I say "I'm a photographer." Then we have a nice little conversation about what kind of photography I do, and then, nothing. I take my camera with me to places with the best intentions of using it, although, I very rarely shoot anything in these situations. I have moments daily where I'll see something and think "that would be a great photo" but never go back to shoot it. I look at Art magazines and feel that ping of jealousy when I see works that speak to me, especially when I imagined or saw something similar. And yet, I really don't like the act of taking a photograph.

But, I love the finished product. I love looking at an Image that I imagined months before, generally in a flash after having passed by an alley or being in someone's space or maybe riding the bus and I just catch a flash, of something. The images that I do take are a reference to moment that never happened. A mood that can be interpreted differently by everyone that views it based on what they bring to the image.

I am influenced by the last 100 years of cinema. The concepts of symbology and psychology. Visual art that has nothing in common with what I do. And most importantly, emotion, especially the kind that can't be clearly expressed in words, the kind that is felt at the moment and then is gone. I love when an image says something to me long after I took the picture, something I never read into it when I shot it. I think my images are best interpreted subconsciously after walking away from the photograph.

I hope you can take something from what you see here as well.