adult and understand my country deeper than I did as a child.

My photography is about senses of place: What does life look like there? What makes lives different from one another? How do those lives feel? What does it feel like to remember a place you grew up? What does it feel like to remember an event that changed you?

I usually incorporate a higher level of abstraction and fine art influence in order to accomplish a more dreamlike and meditative approach to documentary photography. One I hope can explore those questions.

My photography drifts in and out the immutable elements of the art form itself: its ability to be about both the present and the past, about observer and participant, between the factual and the fictional. Living memorials.

I watched a documentary called The Art of Killing, in which the producer explained the inclusion of reenaction and surreal dream sequences in a film which was supposed to originally be about fact.

His response was that "truth is not always about facts".

Factual accuracy is not sufficient enough to capture the essence of a moment in time. I believe that the role of art is to bridge the gap.