Everyday Renegades

Renegade: noun

2 : an individual who rejects lawful or conventional behavior

Conventional: adjective

2b : lacking originality or individuality

Prejudice: noun

2a : a preconceived judgment or opinion

Now imagine how many human interactions we’ve missed due to our own prejudice or how many unfavorable interactions were caused because of it. I’ll tell you what, growing up a mixed kid in a black neighborhood to a single white mother I found myself in the middle of it all. And while I came to understand perception and it’s influence on human behavior I never understood it. Even these days it seems we can’t get past the barricades we create for one another within our own minds. Or the common falsity we allude to in that everyone is presented with the same opportunities and carries into them the same mental endurance regardless of their circumstances - the only thing that separates us from one another.

We often forget that the majority of us are all after the same thing in this life, happiness and our hopeful success in pursuit to it. And while our drives and end states may differ from one another there’s nothing different about being human.

So I present to you a collection of people - humanized through film photography and detailed through my words. These are ambitions, experiences, fears, and truths; loaded, shot, developed and delivered to you.

RNGD

All images are unedited scans - Additional context and stories to images may be found below on IG