What Do You See?

This is a long-term series that combines new photos with photos from my vast archive of 50 years. I am drawn to photographs that are loaded with suggestion yet open to interpretation. People have differing life experiences and therefore read photos differently. But how much of what we see is shaped by our daily interactions and how much is influenced by the countless images that we’ve consumed? How we look at photographs shows how we look at each other. With students I ask them, “What Do You See?” The idea is that there is no right or wrong answer because everyone has different opinions. Then I reveal a back-story that challenges, complicates, and hopefully illuminates their perceptions, opening them up to points of view they hadn’t considered.