I had an assignment, I forgot, and I chose to tell my life through Alice in Wonderland, my favorite story that I read in high school.

I was at Greynolds Park, when I found one of my friends wandering around and I recruited him to be my white rabbit. I played with elements in this piece; focus and symmetry. I wanted this to be the scene where Alice gets a glimpse of the white rabbit and according to my verison, falls in love with him.

In this picture, its Alice chasing after her white rabbit, and I tried to play with symmetry again.

This was one of my last pictures, it has Alice in the middle ground and The White Rabbit in the foreground, with the White Queen in the back and Alice choosing whether to stay to go back to reality.

For my second roll, I changed it up again, I put my subject more in her element, with a long sleeved shirt and changed up the necklace. I tried to make it softer let reflect more upon herself. In the first image, she is looking off and thinking with her hand gently touching her face; my subject is a very big thinker she thinks about everything and anything. In the second image, her hand is reaching out, this is exactly how my subject is, she is in a darker setting from all the other pictures and she is reaching out almost asking for the photographer's hand, I played with focus and lightning and I'm pretty proud of how they look. My last picture is exactly how my subject is, she's a delicate and precious person to me yet she'd grab a branch with thorns and examine it because even when your fragile you still are curious and you can still find the beauty in anything.

If you know Valentina Sayig, my subject, you'll know that she is the most interesting person in the world who has so many layers, she's sweet and caring and yet she can tear your head off. I decided to play with who she is, she is known for dressing masculine and covering up herself in layers. So I decided to make her bare, we found a vest and a pair of stockings and I brought over my skirt and tank top and let her borrow my mothers pearls. I did her make up and the whole time we both had fun, it was like playing dress up. But in the end I showed her and everyone else that you can be beautiful being yourself and being someone your not.

I was at a park, over the summer with my mother, when I saw this tree reaching over the fence, the branches hung suspended over the ground and the sunlight would come through the leaves making shadows on the ground, and I took this photograph thinking that if I could see so much in one tree, maybe people could see so much in me.

This pretty lady here, that I chose to be my subject, is a beautiful poet, who lives in a beautiful gated community with a gazebo on a little lake (man made of course), and we went out there and I listened to her playing the guitar, she was was extremely nervous because she said she didn't play good, but I told her they wouldn't hear you people would only see you. She began strumming away playing the theme to Titanic, and as I circled her taking photographs for my friend documentary, the picture I chose was one of the first I actually took. I chose it because she's so concentrated on playing her guitar, her eyes are closed and for one perfect moment in time, nothing else mattered.

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The lady below, is a person that I love to shoot, I have played with identity in many of my pictures with her; in this one that I decided to share, she is totally in her element in a suit, staring at the camera, holding her tie, its harsh lighting but I love it because even in this photograph I know that my subject is still herself even if she is dressed like a boy.

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out,

but to see who cares enough to break them down.”