My Ego Confuses My Heart. 2012-present.
In a 2016 New Yorker magazine piece titled “Loneliness Belongs to the Photographer,” Hanya Yanagihara describes the act of bearing gentle and silent witness with a camera. It’s when the photographer willingly and deliberately makes theirself anonymous in order to give visibility to an otherwise overlooked instance in another life.
In other words, a simple and uncomplicated moment in one person’s life becomes recognized as something valuable because the photographer says, “Don’t think about me. Look instead at how fleeting and beautiful life is.”
To me, a successful photograph is an act of love.
