These are older portraits taken with my trusty 4s, using the Hipstamatic app. The first 3 and last 2 using only natural light, either inside or out. The 4th one shot under old studio lights inside.
The series of abandoned places - sanitariums, orphanages, mansions with the addition of figures, fake or real, to raise the feeling of loneliness inside the empty spaces.
My work attempts to show how photography extends beyond its own physical and subjective limits and often tells a whole story about the effects of human interaction.
I had the opportunity to access an abandoned part of Ellis Island not open to the general public. Arrangements were made by photographer, Tony Sweet. and the Save Ellis Island Foundation.