Is Photograpghy Art?

I don’t really know if what I create is art or not. All I know is that when I click that shutter I am making a photograph with my camera and I am capturing a feeling. I want your heart to stop. I want you to feel something. Horror, amazement, love, hate, regret…. anything, but nothing. People have looked at my images and have been taken aback. My Deliverance Out Of Childhood series disturbs people. And yet it is the work I am proudest of. You won’t find it easily online because of the repercussions I have felt from it. People fear reality, and those images slap them in the face. Because of it, I am the one who is strange.

Michael, thank you. My wedding and portrait work is so far from what I like to think of as art. The things (those photographs) that I feel proudest of are the things that most people find disturbing. I am still coming to grips with this. Even the man I love more than anything finds it hard to understand.