Sometimes I worry that my work will never really appeal to people, and they'll never feel a real desire to look at it, experience it, feel things through it. I think that's because I worry that, if I never photograph what is beautiful and popular, people will never make an emotional connection to my work.

My photography, and, on a larger scale, my non-photographic work, are these little pieces of my life that all come together to form new pictures and new emotions and new stories. That's all I ever really wanted to do when I picked up a camera: tell stories. They're fascinating little things. I wanted emotions to sparkle through and to capture people in a subtle, fragile little way. I wanted people to feel things deep within their chests that were almost physical sensations.

I guess that's a little pretentious of me, and a little presumptuous. I just can't help but feel that my struggles, my vulnerabilities, they're all transfered into my camera and onto my images when I take a photo. And I would like people to feel these in their hands, to feel the little flutters of my worries and my doubts, these parts of me that I'm giving to you.

This is really a very intimate thing, and I hope that's conveyed by my photography. I am a very intimate person, underneath it all. I take my camera to parties to overcome my social ineptness and occaisional stutter, and I find it so embarrassing when I mistakenly reveal a part of me in front of someone I barely know. There are less embarrassing things - funny stories and anecdotes, one-liners, the sort of terrible jokes that crusty old relatives tell - and there are more embarrassing things. Like my closest relationships and the tiny dynamics in them, like the suggestion of unhappiness in those relationships.

But there you go - that's what I'm doing. Taking a hugely intimate part of me, and throwing it out there for all of you to see. And I hope it... Well, I hope you feel something when you look at it, is all.

All my love,

Sophi

xx