I began to photograph my daughter in 1998 when she was a baby and over the past eleven years the work has expanded to include her brother, friends and cousins. Scenes consists of intuitive and spontaneous photographs created when my children and I are together in our everyday lives: at friends' houses, in the pool, on road trips, on hikes, at the ice cream parlor. In Scenes I consciously use the aesthetic qualities of the materials and the subject matter: the light, the children and the setting. I strive to create images which are not quite like those we are used to seeing of children, with the hope of subtly subverting expectations of what a child should look like or should be doing. I hope to make images that are at once familiar and strange, provocative and reassuring.

The work has proven to be far less of a means to express my established ideas about children, childhood and parenthood and much more of its own journey, teaching and revealing as much as reflecting. To a certain extent of course the children are performing for the camera and while it would be disingenuous to say that this project is a colaboration, the work is definitely shaped by the children's interests, willingness and personalities. Like the children, the work grows and changes from year to year. Like the children this is a work in progress with a will and a life of it's own.