I am a street photographer documenting life around me using film as my medium. Street photography is a form of photography which portrays the brief encounters that the photographer has with people, places, and situations in public. My goal as a street photographer is to have my camera and myself invisible to people around me so that the photographs aren’t forced. To achieve this goal, I shoot mainly on 35mm film and on small cameras with a fixed focal length between 28mm and 55mm.

I choose film as my medium rather than digital not only because of the photographs produced but also the process and technicality involved with film. Film photography takes time, knowledge, and practice to get things right, even with everything lined up correctly things can and will go wrong. The process of making mistakes and learning from those mistakes is something that attracts me to film.  This is the reason why I do not post process my photographs after being developed aside from cropping or aligning the photograph. I believe if I rely on post processing the photographs, I will not identify the fundamental problem in my shooting and won’t be able to improve my photography skills. This mindset forces me to look at each photograph and to analyze what went wrong. I have also learned through this process that even mistakes and imperfections can be beautiful in the right context.

Most of my photographs are shot walking around alone with my thoughts, giving me the chance to process things such as internal thoughts, emotions and even the events of the world. I try to express the solitude and the lack of distractions and clutter in my photographs reflecting what I was processing when it was shot.