Photography wasn’t exactly the career path I thought I was going to take, I mean how did I know that there was a job where people could take photos of things all day and get paid for it. I didn’t believe it, but lucky for me it turns out I was wrong. Fortunately my burgeoning interest in the medium came slowly and pretty much began as a direct result of my mother forcing a single lens reflex camera onto me in high school before she shipped me off to Spain to do a Spanish exchange. With no prior knowledge of how cameras worked, let alone light or focal length, I began to teach myself. Since then photography has opened me up to a world where I can rediscover every colour, every moment, and every chance from some new and original perspective. It has fueled my desire to constantly push myself to experience every new environment, space, colour, light, shadow, country, person, texture, emotion, and chance to its fullest potential, hoping I can find that connection that I am looking for. That is how I look at the world now, and that is essentially what my photography represents - it’s those connections I’m searching for. Throughout all of the experiences I have had, all the places I have been, people I have met, colours I have seen, countries I have been to, and all the photos that I have taken, I have been constantly trying to develop a stronger understanding of my own potential and the possible connections I can make to the world around me. These images represent the opportunity that photography has given me to connect with the world in a new way. Ernst Haas wrote ’You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see… If with the camera you can make others see it – that is photography.’

Liam
te queiro mama, gracias por la maquina de fotografia.