The People Collector
I have always been a collector of people.
Through photography, I’ve made remarkable connections and built relationships with people I might otherwise never have known. I’ve learned that relationships are often why people choose to work with me—and why they come back. It is the chemistry of those connections that builds trust.
Over time, I realized that I enjoy connecting people as much as collecting them. Introducing someone I know to someone they should know. Turning names in a Rolodex into new conversations, collaborations and relationships.
I tell my students that the person who may someday help them most in their career might be someone they hardly know today. I know this because it has happened to me again and again.
Apparently, none of this is new.
My grandmother told me that, even as a child, I was always asking people what they did and why they did it.
Who are you?
What do you do?
Why?
I’m still asking.