SOCIAL - POLITICAL COMMENTARY: Other America

As a photographic artist, I am driven to use my art to explore issues of social identification and cultural disconnect, of which racism is a clear manifestation. I believe the value of photographic art is in providing a distillation of political consciousness that goes beyond photographic documentation.  

My higher goal in creating the Other America collection is to use photographs to inspire the viewer to pause and face the harsh racial and socio-economical reality, and to hopefully influence politics and encourage social change. 

While progress has been too slow in my opinion, I am optimistic about our potential as a species to, one day, live in peace and racial harmony.