My process usually begins from the outside in. I've been told that it's uncommon, but that is the way that photographs speak out to me. It begins with a place I come across, without looking for it. As I drive home late at night, I will catch a strange light at the periphery of my vision that screams out to stop and take a look.
There is only a hint of story in my mind, just a foundation, an aesthetic, a stage for a drama to unfold. I then carry it in my mind and wait for an idea to formulate. I was told once that an interesting portrait begins with an interesting location. The question, is the frame an interesting one before you put someone in it. I work from the larger picture and if the story is to be told, the details reveal themselves.
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