There is incredible beauty in the everyday, in the everyman. Being that is what I live for, what I wake up for, it has been nothing but natural for this beauty to also be what I photograph. My camera, my film, my process is all as unobtrusive as I can make it without taking my persons out of the making. All the lighting is natural, all the moments are real, my camera and film are of no great quality, my postproduction is minimal. I rely almost exclusively on my lack of indifference towards the world and the incredible gift of joy. I feel an extreme passion day in day out and like a magnet it draws me to others who feel the same. The people I know, the places I see, they somehow always point me in the direction of blissful idealistic beauty. My camera comes with me everywhere I go and gradually it leaves the mind of those who keep my company and I am able to capture the utopic existence that can be had when the only expectation of ones life is to be truly enveloped in the exquisite existence we live. My goal is not to say that all is well all the time, only that life is incredible long and beautiful and its not just taking time for the small things, its hunting them down, its finding every good speck and holding onto it, collecting them, so I do.

Steph Krim