Photography is a visual language. A discourse between a subject, a viewer and a picture taker.

It is also a primitive (in the best sense) and very reliable method for figuring the world we live in. Just like the impulse that drove humans to do cave drawings thousands of years ago. We make an image of the world around us and by doing so we are participating in the cosmic act of creation. 

Portrait photography allows me to work with and then fall for my subjects. It is a dialogue. Sometimes it is a tug of war and sometimes a well choreographed dance. I know I succeeded if I end up staring at a portrait, searching my subject's face for clues, seeing new things I did not notice before.

My cityscapes and some of my landscapes are portrait photography too, but of absent people. You can't see them, but they are omnipresent.