Sunday, July 27, 2014

Humanity

I have been thinking a lot about what I want to say with my photography, what message I want to communicate. What keeps coming back into my mind over and over again is this simple truth. I need to show the humanity of my subject. It should be that simple, the power of the photograph and the importance of the individual can be expressed in that single idea their "humanity". If I communicate this message with my photography that is more than enough.

Ot the man in this photograph died before I could give him his picture. When I returned to visit him in 2012 I was told by several people he had passed away.

Ot Klong Toey Slum, Bangkok 2011