ENTRY DESCRIPTION
I love encountering real people wherever they are and capturing them as they are. I don't know this boy or his family. But after talking with them and seeing this boy running and chasing his dog along the shore I asked to take a picture.

In my mind showing us to ourselves IS the purpose of photography. Our strengths, weaknesses, our pains, triumphs. Also to bring to light the ugliness that can be in us; as well as what we see in this image. The potential for so much adventure, growth, possibility and life. That beauty is each of us.

This picture was taken on a beach in Kauai, December 2019.

AUTHOR
Forever in love with image making, Greg Hatton is a cameraman with the self-admitted purpose of creating meaningful images that offer perspective and communicate the realities of life to viewers across the globe.

A native to Los Angeles (now based between Los Angeles and Kaneohe, Hawaii) Greg is a self taught cinematographer and photographer who followed his passion into Hollywood where he continues to work with and learn from some of the industry greats such as Johnny Simmons, ASC, Gill Hubbs, ASC and renowned photographers Frank Jackson and Douglas Kirkland.

Greg’s work has been heavily influenced by cinema, as well as by photographers Gordon Parks, Roy DeCarava, Frank Jackson, William Klein and Abbas. He is inspired by the beauty and rawness of reality. Shots from everyday life appear as if they are staged, as he creates a unique blend of photo-journalism with a cinematic eye

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