We Work, We Love, We Worry, We Play.
During my visit to Cambridge’s Sister City of San Jose las Flores, El Salvador, I learned about coyuntura: a moment in time created by a conjunction of circumstances. In coyuntural analysis, members of a community come together to analyze current circumstances (the political moment) by including every participant’s point of view, and deciding together on actions that will move the community forward.
Photographing on the street, I look for images that support coyuntura -- representations of our common humanity -- through movement, interests and actions. Within these moments of human experience, I also look for juxtapositions of shape, color, and light inside the frame.
We work, we love, we worry, we play. A stopped image, a photograph of our kinetic lives, can refresh us profoundly; it can help us feel a conjunction of common experiences that define our lives as larger, and more significant, than what we may experience as an individual self.
