I have found the basis for all my photographic production is an intense fascination with the individual as actor within society and the moments before and after “the performance.” Much of contemporary photography has a cinematic feel to it, often with the figure caught in between moments, seemingly an exaggerated form of “true life”. However, I have found this type of representation to be quite accurate in its display of human interaction. Recently I witnessed Jeff Wall say that his photography is often the result of him deciding whether or not an event he witnesses in his daily life is worth (re-) presenting and preserving in a photographic image. When I walk the streets I see the cinematographic photograph in action day after day, normal people doing what they do on a day to day basis suddenly seems as, if not more, surreal than what many contemporary photographers work looks like today.