I I got my first camera given to me by my grandfather when I was 10.

     I spent the summer at his farm taking pictures of the long grass blowing in the wind, the cows, the clouds, the chickens...  I took the roll of film home in the little plastic canister when my mom came to get me.

   3 weeks later my grandfather died.

 I processed the roll of film looking desperately

for a last photo of him

only to find that I hadn't taken a single one. 

The feeling that lived inside me for so long, the wish to have gone back in time, I only realized late in my university years, that that feeling is universal. 
This is what keeps me motivated, for every single shoot, for each person. I aim to capture their essence, To create something permanent of them that combats the fragility and fleetingness of life and memory.