Gabriel Cain

I make photographs to connect with people.  I want to reveal to my subjects a glimpse of who they are, and show the world that window into their souls.  Doing photography means connecting with the subject, and it means talking and learning about each-other, and forming a bond.  It is also as much a glimpse into my soul as theirs.

My photography is an expression of how I see the people in the world.  The things that I shoot are often done in the moment: planning, and prep, of course.  Coordination, a given.  But in the end, it's the final bits that are decided on site, in the moment, as it happens.

To see something and record it is to provide a reference point into memory.  To evoke those thoughts and feelings that surround the time of the image, I make the photograph.  It is the time of creation, and of doing.   I record these things so that I may recall with vividness what happened, the emotions I felt, the things I thought, and all those wide and varied things that make up this process that is my photography.

People are the center of what work I want to do, and are the point of my photography.  For me, photography is important as it relates to the human condition -- telling stories about people.

Show me your soul, I'll show it back to you.