My artwork has expanded largely in the last year and now explores the natural beauty of people in candid social situations. Prior to this, I photographed nude portraits to emphasize the raw beauty of the human form. My work has now evolved into candid portraiture but in a way that it still highlights the same concept of natural, unedited beauty. What is most expressive in my work is the vibrancy and difference within human life. Through my work, I deconstruct the hierarchy of the American beauty standard. Through photography I seek to challenge what is beautiful in our everyday lives. If all we see are advertisements with ridiculous standards then we are missing the beauty of what is in front of us. By photographing people on the street I am challenging traditional beauty standards by exposing the beauty of the individual and not the facade we as people portray.
There are campaigns that challenge the same beauty standards that I myself am trying to challenge. However, I am photographing the person in hopes that my audience will find something beautiful in natural beauty. The idea is not to overtly challenge beauty standards but rather offer an alternative. Here are real people in real situations and they are beautiful.
Photography is my medium of choice and I photograph in a variety of places. I have chosen to remove the background from the image so that my audience will focus on the subject of the photograph and not where the subject is. More so, I hope to express the universality of human beings. No matter who or where I am photographing, individuals are individuals. I am largely inspired by Hungarian photographer Brassai. In his work he also photographs the individual as well as groups of people in various social settings. What is so inspiring about his work is that whatever he photographed is beautiful in its own right because he chose to photograph it. His subjects were beautiful and inspiring to him as an artist and the audience gets a sense of that as well. That is what I hope to portray in my work. Even though these people are not flawless they are beautiful in their imperfections, their human-esque qualities. Each person should be relatable on the mere basis that they are human.
As an artist I am inspired by the life that surrounds me. I photograph who and what I find beautiful regardless of social norms. There is beauty in chaos, in imperfection it just has to be acknowledged.
There are campaigns that challenge the same beauty standards that I myself am trying to challenge. However, I am photographing the person in hopes that my audience will find something beautiful in natural beauty. The idea is not to overtly challenge beauty standards but rather offer an alternative. Here are real people in real situations and they are beautiful.
Photography is my medium of choice and I photograph in a variety of places. I have chosen to remove the background from the image so that my audience will focus on the subject of the photograph and not where the subject is. More so, I hope to express the universality of human beings. No matter who or where I am photographing, individuals are individuals. I am largely inspired by Hungarian photographer Brassai. In his work he also photographs the individual as well as groups of people in various social settings. What is so inspiring about his work is that whatever he photographed is beautiful in its own right because he chose to photograph it. His subjects were beautiful and inspiring to him as an artist and the audience gets a sense of that as well. That is what I hope to portray in my work. Even though these people are not flawless they are beautiful in their imperfections, their human-esque qualities. Each person should be relatable on the mere basis that they are human.
As an artist I am inspired by the life that surrounds me. I photograph who and what I find beautiful regardless of social norms. There is beauty in chaos, in imperfection it just has to be acknowledged.