GENTE DE ARBOL ( THE TREE PEOPLE)

From April 20 20 until February 2023. I photographed an area in Victoria British Columbia known as as Pandora Street. It is a rough area with a vast variety of individuals that are going through rough times and are often overlooked.

For the next three years, I relentlessly documented, the lives of others and the trials and tribulations that some end up  in this life cycle and in doing so heard, and saw things that I could not un see, or un here.

Lost photographs, drawings, memories,  birthday and Christmas cards on the ground. All of these things have stuck with me up until this very day..

At the very end of the project I started going for long walks in secluded areas with no people just nature and unknowingly started photographing trees that looked and reminded me of people that I had photographed on Pandora Street

From smiling and laughing  to living and loving and crying and dying, and downing,  I still could not escape what I had seen or heard so I dealt with it the only way I know how to.

Get out and make some photographs

The way the light during certain seasons refracts off the foliage and branches, never ceases to amaze me. It brings an ambience to the tree that is indescribable in words but a photograph can capture.

There is light in darkness and if done in a certain way, can pertain to a certain beauty that is often overlooked