Everyday people are my people is a portrait series about presence. Created as my final project for barber college, the work reflects the environment where I’ve spent countless hours observing faces, conversations, and quiet moments. We move past people every day without noticing the weight they carry. This series slows that down, focusing on ordinary individuals such as fathers, workers, students, and partners, not as roles but as people in the quiet space between them. The images resist spectacle and instead linger in moments where someone simply exists.
Photographed slowly on Kodak Portra 800, the softness and grain of film hold time differently, more patient and more deliberate. That pace becomes part of the story. The series asks a simple question: What changes when we stop looking at people and begin looking with them?
