Photographer, Kendra Smith

Hello! I am an editorial & documentary photographer.

My work is documentary in nature, focusing on the details, emotions, and overall heart encompassing the time and space of an event, individual, family, object, business, or brand.

I am inspired by the beauty of the present moment of the world we live in and experience. Nothing is ever the same as when a photograph is taken, and there is power in the strength of a moment, a time, a person, and a place that can never be replaced or replicated.

In 1955, Edward Steichen helped produce an exhibition with the Museum of Modern Art, New York, named "The Family of Man" I came across the exhibition's photo book with 503 black and white photographs from worldwide taken by photographers both famed and nameless. It is now one of my most treasured possessions. Steichen's introduction to this exhibition inspires and reminds me of my passion for anthropology and the power of a photograph.

"Photographs concerned with man in relation to his environment, to the beauty and richness of the earth he has inherited and what he has done with this inheritance, the good and the great things, the stupid and the destructive things.

Photographs concerned with the religious rather than religions. With basic human consciousness rather than social consciousness. Photographs concerned with man's dreams and aspirations and photographs of the flaming creative forces of love and truth and the corrosive evil inherent in the lie".