"Vanishing Point" probes memory and desire through encounters with people at pivotal points in life.
Growing up gay in a small college town in Ohio, the life I desired seemed always just out of reach. Twenty years later, a grown man yet still full of longing, I returned for my high school reunion.
Photography became a tool for time travel. Now immersed in the landscape of my youth, I scout for “stand-ins” for characters from my past. Archetypal figures appear: those I had wanted, or wanted to be — and those I’m afraid to become. In their eyes, I encounter my alternate selves. In my eyes, I see them foresee their own aging with a mixture of curiosity and trepidation.
We stand at a crossroads – each of us perched on the cusp of becoming the other. I watch for moments of transition, when the subject seems on the verge of becoming or vanishing. I photograph to describe these liminal states – evoking the eternal quest to situate the self in time.