We present ourselves in everyday life through different personas, the masks of identity we unconsciously wear depending on where we are and who we are with. I patiently walk along unfamiliar streets seeking images of people in everyday settings with the hope that there is more to be revealed than what is on the surface—the unscripted theatre of the street as we act out our public lives. Am I seeing person or persona? Fact or fiction?

Persona is an open-ended project that includes portraits of strangers and candid images of people living their everyday lives, commonly called street photography. Many faces are from foreign lands I have visited trying to capture the human diversity we share. Street photography is both fact (real people in everyday life) and the fiction introduced by how people present themselves. Add to that another layer of fiction by the photographer who creates a character in his head then realizes it in a little black box called a camera. Layers of fact and fiction all come together. (2012 – )