Live

Within this body of work I explore myself and various people in survival mode. With the world changing so rapidly, and society going from one disaster to the next you never know when you will wake up and find our world in the apocalypse. I have photographed various people with weapons to defend themselves, or them holding things that they would defend themselves with or things that would be worth defending. These portraits serve almost as character posters for their post apocalyptic selves. The emotions I capture within these portraits contain nothing but sheer intensity, and the low key lighting they are in pushes that idea even more. My greatest inspiration for this work is The Walking Dead. For a couple of seasons they did really low key character portraits of the cast, and that gritty high contrast style has always stood out to me the most. Within The Walking Dead each character has their own signature weapon or look. I have set out to do this with various people by photographing their overall persona with the weapons they own themselves.