Friend Documentary

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.”