Professional swimmer turned photographer, his series Swallow is visually influential to me but even more in what inspired it. In his youth he battled time. Between his training, family, friends, and the turmoil we have in our youth of loving and missing but rebelling against our family. His past he says shaped his photographs,as he assimilated to each new environment he was out in in order to survive and in hopes to succeed. Growing up is a mess of battling your family, your expectations, and your own individuality. Shape-shifting even to find where we belong. This series spoke straight to who I am and what I have attempted in my own adolescent experience and I believe that can be said for many my age these days.
60 Wondrous Artists 