Artist Statement
Friendship is blind to skin color and ethnicity. These schoolboys were waiting to start their viewing of the James Barnor exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Barnor is a well known Ghanian photographer. They had a friendly but slightly guarded relationship with each other and they seemed a bit apprehensive, yet excited, about entering the exhibition. School friendships are certainly unique, and these boys demonstrate that.
My street photography attempts to show our humanity in its most positive form. We are all different and we relate to our environment differently. But we are connected in so many ways and in the end, we are more similar than different.
Occasionally, there are elements of our surroundings that need to be captured and displayed in hopes of leading to change and I will photograph these scenes and people when they present themselves.
My goal is to show humanity as it affects me in hopes that it will touch others as well.