We start taking pictures from the moment we open our eyes as infants: hazy, blurry, and undifferentiated. These internalized images are just the start of an enormous library of pictures that we carry inside throughout our lifetimes. These pictures become an intrinsic part of who we are and how we know ourselves and the world around us.
As a psychotherapist by profession, I spend most of my time focused on the invisible world of the human psyche. It is private, invisible, and abstract. In contrast, the time I spend taking and processing photographs connects me with the visible, tangible, physical world. These two parts of my life create a wonderful dynamic tension that keeps me grounded internally and externally; both with myself and others.
To me, the most exciting photographs are those that evoke deeply buried psychic material thereby functioning as a vehicle for people to connect more deeply and authentically with the true self and with those, hidden but very much alive, aspects of others both living and long passed.
What makes a successful image in my view, is its ability to evoke emotion, sensation, image, memory in the viewer while connecting the viewer with the unconscious, or the preconscious, or more global archetypical material both in the individual's personal and collective spheres.
Powerful photos give us a sense of recognition of something we once knew...or currently know but cannot articulate...or of something we long to know. For each of us that will be something different--but we all know it when we see it!
- JoinedJanuary 2007
- OccupationPsychotherapist & Therapeutic Photographer
- HometownSeattle
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