Wandering Light: An inner silence

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I chose not to photograph people smiling in portraits. I too am always searching to reveal the inner silence within a subject. Posed smiling is a learned reaction and does not provide insight to subject’s being. Instead it blocks the viewer from studying a vulnerable face.

I ask a lot of the people I photograph. I ask them to trust me. Trust my vision as an artist. Trust me to make an image as honestly as I know how to. Sometimes they do not like the image. Sometimes they hate the image. I don’t always know how to feel about that. It is an intimate process. I almost always feel a bond between my subjects both during and after.

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