I have always fostered a deep fascination for change. I have always been observing it, experiencing it and intellectualizing it in a very personal and unusual way.
Most of the explorations I conduct today, are clearly inspired by a visual form inherent to documentary photography. Though, the content of these studies tend to go around and beyond the expected message of the discipline.
Through enduring portraiture and landscape photography, I try, not only, to depict change in different contexts, but also, to explore its multiple and often overlooked surroundings.
Hope, transitions, vulnerability, strength, refusal, acceptance, choice, fate, fleeting, extended, before, lasting, after, critical, trivial…
It is the simultaneous presence of extreme strength and extreme vulnerability that fascinates me and pulls me towards my subjects.
Here, through Love and War, I enter the transitory universe of a single person, creating a visceral, personal and powerful account of my days around Caroline.
[ For several years, I instinctively and sporadically documented the complexity of a young US army sergeant veteran's love life; before, during and after her deployment to Iraq.
Today, this study has become an investigative document; a research piecing back together the emotional fabric of a conflict ridden subject. Love and War is the lyrical synthesis of all the narrative fragments I collected while hanging around Caroline Annandale for 8 years.]
