Emotional alchemy

I have always been drawn to people's stories. I think it comes from being someone who has listened a lot throughout my life. People have shared things with me that they perhaps haven't told many others. Some of these stories have stayed with me for a very long time.

Emotional Alchemy is my way of working with these stories. I take something I have heard or been told and try to find a way to express it through photography. The images are not portraits of the people behind the stories. They are my own interpretations, using other people as symbols of feelings and experiences we may share.

I call the project Emotional Alchemy because I am interested in what happens when we take difficult experiences and find a way to carry them differently. I don't believe we can simply erase what has happened to us. But perhaps we can find something in those experiences that helps us understand ourselves and others a little better.

At its heart, this project is about people, about what we go through, what we keep to ourselves, and how we find our way forward.