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"Our identity expands and is enriched as the places in which we feel at home - if only temporarily - are multiplied." - Yi-Fu Tuan

Though houses are the backdrop for many of the photographs I make, it is the idea of the common that I am investigating. The camera, with its ability to crop, compose and selectively focus, allows me to see my surroundings in new ways. It helps to expand my awareness of what I know and who I am.

I feel at home when the spaces in front of my camera take shape on the ground glass. They fascinate me by the way they allow access to another time and place through memories associated with the objects in the images. They become scenes for a narrative with the possibilities for joy and discovery, loss and longing.

 

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