If we have ourselves as company,

are we ever truly alone?

Alone Together is an exploration of companionship in solitude.

For this series, my camera finds a fixed position and is left to work automatically without my input. The subject is left alone with the camera. Sometimes for an hour, sometimes for several weeks. Finally, I return to retrieve the camera and collect the thousands of photos that it has taken. Photos that were taken purely by chance. A heavy selection period follows and during this process I am listening for the story that is coming through each frame. With infinite possible combinations I land on one final image by creating a composite frame of the moments that, together, tell a larger story.

In the end, the compositions always surprise me. Each individual photo feels like a sentence in the persons journal. A chicken scratched rhyme. A passage that they are trusting me to read. And in the end, each finished frame is a poem on solitude that we have written together. 

14 photos from the series were featured as a part of Photoville - an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City. The 6 x 30 foot banner was hung in Dumbo, just under the Brooklyn Bridge on Old Fulton and Prospect St.