Faults in my Code
(Preliminary statement) Over the past five to six years, I’ve also been coming to grips with a lot of mental health struggles that I’ve only begun to normalize as part of the ever-evolving me. I never thought I’d use photography to work through things so directly, but I hope to explore deep-seated elements of trauma, depression, anxieties and regrets with this work in hopes to find some catharsis. I’ve spent so many sleep-deprived nights mulling over the details of this project and reliving the pain that most of you know little, if nothing, about. To top it all off, I find myself working upside down, rather than shooting revealing the concept, my concept is solid for once before I’ve taken a single shot. I’m sure this means I’ll be sharing a lot of creative dead-ends and unpolished attempts. So here I go, baring it all, jumping in the deep end without knowing how to swim…