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Photography has such a story-telling quality. To me, telling a story is the goal. I’ve always really enjoyed listening to stories and telling stories and, well, being in stories. Through photography, a deep, honest image can travel from one place and present itself to another. Sometimes its a story that is happy, sometimes sad.  It’s a completely silent form of communication, though. There’s this purity and intensity to it. I want my photography to be true and fascinating and inspiring.

I fell in love with photography while living New York City. There’s just something truly powerful about New York, as if it is just saturated with inspiration. Perhaps it has to do with the amount of creative talent in such a small radius. Perhaps it has to do with the type of community found only in New York. I, though, happen to have a theory that New York’s magic happens because of public transportation. For me, personally, I am inspired by other people and how they are and interact. In New York, via public transportation, which is really the only way to go, you can’t escape a multitude of cultures and economical backgrounds and sociological backgrounds. New York residents are literally forced to be around other people of all sorts of walks of life on a daily basis. Gosh…I loved that about New York!

Initially, I had no intention of a career in photography. It wasn't until a series of people entered my life and encouraged me and literally gave me work and helped this love grow and take root in my heart did any of it seem feasible. So what started out as just a little project has now grown into a business…driven by love, carried by hope and inspired by God.  And as awkward and trying as it sometimes is, I love every day of it.

Every picture is a perspective. My hope and my goal in any photograph that I take is to represent an honest perspective. Truth has a way of finding its way to us. And that is beautiful.

Also, check out:

flickr.com/photos/kaiti
kaitibierdeman.blogspot.com