Photography – San Jose
In my efforts to develop my art, I have experimented with multiple genres. I take environmental pictures, that is, I photograph subjects in their work or leisure environments; the professor in the classroom is a personal favorite and a good example. I also shoot lifestyle portraits, capturing the style of my subjects, working to communicate the essence of the “life experience.” Some of these shoots naturally evolved into a more classical portraiture, where the face is the principal element, and those moments pushed me to a natural experimentation with contemporary glamour photography, emphasizing the romantic appeal of my subjects. I looked outside of my own tentative arsenal of canonical works to broaden both my subjects and genres, and candid photography, specifically street photography, rapidly became one of my favorite activities. This look at real life blossomed into my current interest: the sublime in the face of the abject.
In keeping with my theme of frank reality, I hunt images of the old juxtaposed with new, the mundane against the extraordinary, technology paired with nature, and the enigmatic with the simple. Castoffs of contemporary culture; overlooked, weathered, and discarded objects; the past and the future, and the pain of the miserable confounded by the riches of Silicon Valley coalesce to create a complicated story of the human experience; it is that conflicted, traumatic, marvelous story that I endeavor to expose.