While I enjoy working with the talented makeup artists, models & designers in the area and also making beautiful portraits of individuals, I have a deep desire to capture "real life moments", and am personally drawn to exploring other ways my love of photographing can be used to create meaningful images.
I've recently been able to pick back up with a personal project I've wanted to undertake for a while now - photodocumenting the disadvantaged in Indianapolis and the surrounding areas and the vast (amazingly, surprisingly, and largely unnoticed by the wider population) mass of non-profit organizations that serve them here. I am especially touched by the children in these circumstances, and though each time I visit a new place I have to overcome a flutter of fear of walking into an unknown environment and worrying I won't be able to do the situation justice with my images, this is something I am determined to follow through with, wherever it leads. Following are just a few images from my latest trip to an after-school program downtown...
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