Artist Statement

At the core, my work is an examination into the curse of power, the wounds it inflicts on those who don’t have it, and probably never will. It’s a universal story, really. One that we can all identify with. For if we don’t quest for power, what do we really quest for? What’s important about this work, in my view, is that it reveals the fateful intersection of history and the human soul. The West has its own versions of materialism; we may pretend that these people and their sad condition have nothing to do with us. But something in their eyes tells us more than we want to know. We are being tested, all of us. These photos confront us with the inescapable truth: life is a journey through a dark wood. We must take it one step at a time.