ESSENCE PORTRAITS

Writing

I write for the same reason I photograph:
to meet the quiet truth that lives beneath the surface.

My work, whether in images or in language, moves through the subtle, psychological spaces we rarely show. The moments where identity softens, where performance dissolves, where something unguarded rises before we can control it. In my portraits, this appears in a shift of the eyes, a breath, a stillness. In my writing, it appears as the sentence that arrives before I understand it.

Writing has always been the way I make sense of the unseen architecture of experience:
grief, thresholds, memory, the inner storms no one else notices, the symbols that speak before we have words. I write to explore the parts of ourselves we recognise instantly but cannot easily explain. The parts that live between presence and disappearance, knowing and forgetting.

My books travel through these inner landscapes, some raw and emotional, some poetic and symbolic, some distilled into frameworks like Perceptual Architecture, and others spiraling into the mythic and subconscious. Together they form a body of work about what it means to be human in the in-between.

For those who read my books, the same invitation that lives in my photography applies:
slow down, look underneath, and meet yourself in the place where the story shifts.

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