The Catcher in Montauk
This portfolio is part of my 2-year project called “The Strangers”. Sometimes I feel like I am connected to strangers more than people who know me well because of their instant, honest and prime behaviors. This is why I have chosen to develop this portfolio of photographs and why I am so fascinated with a strangers' monologue.
Thomas Wolfe once said, “We are the sum of all the moments of our lives” and that anybody who sits down to write is going to use the “clay of their own mind”. And we can’t avoid it. Through my experience, I have found these feelings are universal. I want my photography to speak the emotions of loneliness, solitude and the calmness that I have experienced in my life so far.
I have been fascinated with Montauk, New York for some time. For me, this is where the land ends and loneliness begins. I know that “no man is an island”, but I believe there is a certain time and place where man can feel totally alone in the universe. For me that place is Montauk, Long Island.
The Strangers
I am shaped by a different culture. Here in the Unites States this sometimes sounds exotic, intriguing, or even admired. But I know that when people try to adjust to a new life they have struggles, which, cannot be completely understood. Once I accepted that I was the one who was different, it encouraged me to see the ways in which individual people are different and unique. This experience was an eye-opener and the key to really seeing the world.
Henry David Thoreau once said, “one may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be a stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then."
Sometimes I feel like I am connected to strangers more than people who know me well because of their instant, honest and prime behaviors. This is why I have chosen to develop this portfolio of photographs and why I am so fascinated with a strangers' monologue.
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