Places with headspace. Enough room for my thoughts.

Moments inside the home. Details that probably shape me more than I realize. The space that I have chosen to occupy. To tend. To fill. To prepare. To present. From Condo, to Basement, up to Apartment, then to New Place.

Things Are Looking Up

I have a habit of taking pictures of the “up” with my phone. Different way of seeing the everyday.

These images are documents of my time in Maputo, Mozambique and the small village 45 minutes outside of Maputo called Mahalase in July of 2017. Looking at the surrounds that mark a culture and a country, I took pictures as I discovered the differences and similarities between this home and my own. I stayed on a ministry base called Zimpeto Children’s Center which housed the castoff and abandoned children of that region. About three hundred kids, housed, fed, and loved are joined by twelve hundred kids from the community for school. With all of these children around and the adult workers and volunteers on the base, I found myself not wanting to take their pictures. I enjoyed talking to them and learning from them without shooting them and subjecting them to a two dimensional surface. The people I met have very different ways of living than what I am accustomed to, and because of that I am forever enlightened to what it means to be human here in this world. Many differences, but even more similarities, the people I met I will forever cherish. The photos I have will always take me back to when life was slower, when clean had a new meaning, and to when my view on humanity opened up into a new reality.

B&W film, 5x7 inch prints