In March of 2015 I launched the In Search of America as a personal photographic  project. It’s thesis was to answer a nagging question that I kept asking myself: “Is this all that America is about? 

After years of dire media stories that continually fueled fears that Americans were severely divided into an irreparable chasm, in addition to politicians [from both sides of the aisle] using this mongering to secure our votes, Americans were plagued by a deep sense of hopelessness - or so it seemed.

Yet all along my journey I found more people than not who still had some sense hope. I found communities that still existed, as well as the formation of new communities where none had existed for quite sometime.

I found that most Americans did not [hate], nor were they irreversibly [angry]. For the most part I found people who shared a great sense of fear; but it was this fear that had many faces. At the core of it all, however, I fond that the majority of Americans - in fact, the majority of people throughout the world, share at least two things in common: they want their voice to be heard, and respected.

This is not to say that they demand to be ‘agreed with’. They simply want their thoughts, and opinions to be ‘listened to’ respectfully.