Not a portfolio of finished work. A record of how I think and create.
Every frame is a question about who gets to speak and who gets to listen.
Long-form observation before intervention. Weeks of presence before the camera comes out. Interviews as conversations, not performances.
The best documentary work I have done started when I stopped directing and started listening.
Light is language. Composition is argument.
Natural light first. Blocking that respects the subject's space. Lenses chosen for intimacy, not spectacle.
Good cinematography disappears into the story. You only notice it when it fails.
Technology should extend human connection, not replace it.
Start with the community's existing tools. Prototype in public. Ship something usable before something perfect.
The most durable tech I have built is the kind people forget is technology.
Still images hold what video rushes past.
Available light. Patient framing. A single decisive moment over a hundred safe ones.
My photography practice keeps my documentary eye honest. One frame, one truth.