A portrait isn't just a picture of someone's face. It should reveal something deeper: personality, history, the weight of experience. That's what I'm after when I make portraits, and it connects to the broader idea of human condition photography, capturing the emotional and social reality of a person's life.

I work almost exclusively in black and white for portraits. Color can distract. Without it, you focus on expression, on light and shadow, on what the person is actually showing you.

Most of these are what we call environmental portraits. I photograph people in their own spaces, where they live or work, or feel comfortable. I don't shoot in studios. I go to where people are, and I work with whatever light is there. Natural light tells the truth.