Circumstances brought us together: young children - now teenagers - who have grown up along with my own son, Oliver; elderly people whom I have come to know as a social worker working in a nursing home; friends and family whom I have watched grow and change over the years.

I am drawn to each one of my subjects because of their particular way of being in the world – the way they look, dress and express themselves, and how I have come to know them. It is the experience of finding myself with others that I had never imagined knowing, that soon grows to the recognition that here is an opportunity to capture my experience.

I try to reach beyond a physical description to capture the feeling, poetry, and nuances that convey the special qualities of my subjects.