I didn't plan this shoot. I almost didn't do it at all. My internal critic had a full case built against me before I even turned on a light. But somewhere between abandoning my lighting setup and turning my back to the camera, something showed up that I didn't ask for. This is what happened when practice turned into actual work.

Richard Prince builds portraits out of other people's photographs, then presents them as his own. It looks like a shortcut. It isn't.

We started with fishnets and no real plan. Then the latex dress went on, and someone else showed up in front of the camera. She looked at the monitor and said, 'That's not me.' It was.

Leica conjures refinement, perfection, and a gold standard in image capture. It also invokes high dollar signs. But the finest camera in the world doesn't make a perfect picture alone. The photographer has to account for something, right?

A personal look at street photography as a meditative practice and how walking familiar streets with a camera, inspired by photographers like William Eggleston, builds presence, perspective, and an eye for the unscripted moments of everyday life.