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Nadia – She’s not a “survivor”…she’s a person.
I attended an event for National Overdose Awareness Day. I shot an image that moved me deeply. I reached out so I could share the photo. Andi had lost her son to the scourge of opioids. She was there with her daughter Donna and Donna’s wife Nadia. As it often does for...
Cameron – He’s the luckiest man he knows.
If you have never been to a Special Olympics event…you might want to go…and bring the kids. You’d be hard-pressed not to feel moved by the joy and enthusiasm. On occasion, I photograph dances and proms for adult daycare facilities. I met Cameron at several of these...
Francois Szony – Forever The Dancer
Two years ago I was at Goldcoast Ballroom doing a portrait series of senior citizens. On an average Wednesday afternoon there are about 150 people who spend the afternoon dancing cha cha, rhumba, mambo or fox trot. The average age is probably 70. The oldest person I...
Nicole Zimmerman
In October of 2015 I was at MD Anderson in Houston helping my brother Eric navigate his cancer treatment. Bob, a friend who worked at the hospital happened to tell me that a patient, Nicole Zimmerman, would be getting married that Sunday. Nicole had just learned that...
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“It’s one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness” Paul Strand
My hope is that these essays will depict our sameness and not our differences. Compassion feeds the soul. We are part of the same family, our human collective.
If we risk an awkward moment and open our hearts, our lives will be enriched.