The Power of a Pause

A photographic portrait is a bookmark. That’s all. It’s not who you are, it’s what you look like now. Who you are cannot be photographed. But a little of you can seep through.

We get a sense of a person from their photograph. We are always swiping left or right. Is this a person I might want to meet? Is this a person I might want to talk to? Do they seem happy with themselves? Are they hiding something?

The subconscious churns. The questions are asked whether we realize it or not. With a photograph our attention is held and we are given a moment to make up our minds. It only takes a second, but unlike in real life we can pause and reflect just a little bit longer. We can pick up on nuances that in the street barely register.

These are strange and interesting times. Our faces are all trapped in amber, forever encoded in vast server farms and collated for fast and accurate recall. When you’re Googled what appears? Be careful what you choose to represent yourself.

It’s my goal to give you the best possible bookmark, and to help your essence come through. I want the people looking at your photos to see what I see. I have never photographed a person I didn’t like. That’s true. If I focus on that (which I do) other people will like you too.