“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.”

— Alan Watts

“Bridging traditional photographic methods and digital phtography Michelle Susoev uses her camera as conduit of emotional content and a window into the soul of her subjects.”

— Peter Coyote

Definition:

Truth (noun)

\ ˈtrüth \ plural truths\

1 : the body of real things, events, and facts : ACTUALITY

2 : sincerity in action, character, and utterance

Visual Anthropology /

Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media.

More recently it has been used by historians of science and visual culture.[1] Although sometimes wrongly conflated with ethnographic film, visual anthropology encompasses much more, including the anthropological study of all visual representations such as dance and other kinds of performance, museums and archiving, all visual arts, and the production and reception of mass media. Histories and analyses of representations from many cultures are part of visual anthropology: research topics include sandpaintings, tattoos, sculptures and reliefs, cave paintings, scrimshaw, jewelry, hieroglyphics, paintings and photographs.

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"Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There's no how-to road map to style. It's about self expression and, above all, attitude."

— Iris Apfel

“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.”

— John Muir

About Michelle /

I approach my role behind the camera as a visual anthropologist and photojournalist, traveling to tell stories and to have unspoken human conversation with my subjects. Rooted deep in the craft of the photographic process I use my lens to draw in the light surrounding my subjects as well as the “light” within them.

— Michelle