About
Photo credit: Austin Bulmer
About Me
I picked up a camera at the age of thirteen, and even then I felt there was far more to photography than pointing and shooting. Film making was not far behind, and I found both the making and the viewing of images are communication processes that connect us on a number of levels.
A deeper participatory dimension drives me and guides me on every picture, every movie I make; am I connecting to the subject? Am I sharing the story in a way the elicits the correct emotional response? Or any response at all?
Film making and portraiture can illuminate the more subtle, rich aspects of vision by paying attention to those elements in making a picture. It becomes convincing and even magical when an image becomes more real than reality.
My work, at its core, is the purposeful quest for magic.
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
- Karl Lagerfeld -
Christian Lewis
Portraits
A portrait that declines to name its subject becomes complicit, if inadvertently in the cult of celebrity that has fueled an insatiable appetite for the opposite sort of photograph: to grant only the famous their names demotes the rest to representative instances of their occupations, their ethnicities, their plights.
~ Susan Sontag
Fitness
Brute animals are the most healthy, and they are exposed to all weather, and of men, those are healthiest who are the most exposed.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Leigh Michelle
DevAnne Rose
Fashion
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
~ Coco Chanel
Product
It’s never been easier for audiences to skip, filter, or avoid advertising, so the best ideas are the ones that respect that the audience needs to get something out of the work; it should inspire, satisfy, or motivate them. You can’t just bombard people with messages anymore.
~ Ajaz Ahmed
