alone | TOGETHER is a look at cultural shifts of lifestyles and relationships in a big city.
These environmental portraits reflect a developing trend of lifestyle choices in NYC, where I ask the viewer to contemplate what is attractive in being single and living alone, and reflect on this mood within the era of the new individualism.
As a photographer, my method is to tell a story with each image, a unique story for each individual that illustrates the societal and cultural shifts at large that each image embodies.I am curious about these shifts and invite the viewer to reflect on the fundamental changes in our values as a society, on relationships, on being alone and yet together but not connected.
These images reflect this disconnect. I work with a variety of portraits of single people of different ages who live in New York. My research was key to this series, and shows the variety of attitudes of New Yorkers around the idea of being single.
I am curious about how people are willing to live alone in such a big city as NYC. The foundation of this work was not whether they think it is a problem or not, but how they felt about it.
My artistic practice is a contemplation of values. The cultural shift of values presented in this body of work offer the thought on living alone as a modern trend and asks why this has become more of the norm. I ask the viewer to question and seek out answers for themselves concerning what causes someone to think that it is better to live alone in NYC rather than with someone else.
And what attitudes does the culture at large play towards accepting being single, whether positive or not.
