Artist Statement

This was the first Artist Statment of my graduate degree. I will be expanding and updating my artist statement in the following week.


After being a moment mercenary for over 10 years. I have turn that focus and drive toward a more enduring and alluring personality: the city. I want to capture the conflicting elements between a city as well as the people within the space. My Medium is photography, and my subject is the street.

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