These photos weren't made for a project. They were made because I was paying attention.

Over ten years, across different countries and different states of mind, I pointed a camera at people, moments and shapes that stopped me.

These images don't share a theme. They don't build toward an argument. Some of the people in them I spoke to. Some just caught my eye and I caught theirs. Some never knew I was there.

I'm not trying to tell you a story. I'm showing you how I looked at the world while I was figuring out my place in it.

What connects these photographs isn't subject matter or style, it's me. My curiosity, my hesitation, my hunger to be close to lives that aren't mine.

I see something of myself in every one of these people, even when we have nothing in common. No shared language, no shared culture, no shared destination. Just the fact of being here, moving through the same world at the same time, briefly aware of each other.

That's enough for me.