There’s just something about documenting the still image of a person. When I traveled to Nicaragua with my friend Andy as a documentary photographer for his medical and dental humanitarian outreach, I really found myself falling for portraiture. The beautiful and rugged and worn and stoic and smiling faces of the Nicaraguan people were stunning subjects for my new 50mm Canon lens. In one particular image, the face of a woman named Ursula, blinded as a result of parasitic infection, had such an impact on me that it’s still one of my favorite images to this day. I returned from that trip and asked every person I could convince to let me take their portrait. It was a fun and fascinating project I plan to repeat in short order.
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