I have been taking photos since before I can actually recall. I swear I was nearly born with a little 35mm camera attached to me. Photos are memories fixated in time, they are ever lasting and eternal. They are what remains when we move on or go away. They are the stilliness in a fast moving world, the intake of breath in a sometimes suffocating existence. I am a photographer.

My childhood was fractured and mostly unhappy. This is just a fact. I was often left feeling lost and forgotten. A camera was something I hid behind to capture the world as I saw it. The broken dolly on the pavement, the old man playing chess or a fleeting image of my own mother smiling. I spent forever wishing someone would take a photo of me, so I could recall who I was then and where I was. As it happens only 6 images exist of me as a child and then there is none until I joined the military age 17, again only a few exist. When I hit 22 I changed that. I worked hard to capture my footing in my life. I wanted to have memories and my own forevers.

Baby Khandie

With every click of my camera shutter I felt though I was documenting history. Be that of a landscape or a person. I was stopping time. I was making that memory immortal. My clients, my friends, my life. I have the ability to make that memory of your child smiling in the summer sun be forever. Your walk down the aisle to your love last a lifetime.

That is why I take photographs. I want to make those moments to be eternal, unchanging and as perfect as they are the second they were made. No more forgotten memories. No more lost seconds.