Carlos.

Carlos is another young guy I was able to shoot for the outreach project I'm working with.  This project is aimed at young Latino and black gay/bi men who might be engaging in risky behavior and offers them an alternative social setting.

This last image I know goes against a number of different photographic rules, one of which is not to blow out the image.  However, in view of one of the aims of this outreach program being to draw young men away from a possible life of drugs, I really like this image as it gives me the feeling of being strung out after a drug run and how raw and stark everything appears.

Sergio.

On the project that I am working on in conjunction with a local outreach project seeking to help young Latino and black gay/bi men find healthier ways of living than the hard party life, I just shot Sergio.

Conrad, 25.

I'm starting a new project for a local organization reaching out to young men of the LGBT community.  Conrad is the first of my subjects that I've worked with.

On a lighter note.

I recently added a puppy to my family, and my house has taken on the cluttered look of a nursery with new toys strewn about every room.  I was playing with Max the other day, and I took a look at some of these toys and suddenly saw them in a new light.  All of a sudden I saw foreign objects and landscapes in an alien world.  Always seeing the world in images, I wanted to try to capture these toys in this new light.