We The People
We the People
Published by Jet Age Book, 2021
In August 2015, after 10 years of living in the United States, I received an email from my immigration attorney asking me if I was ready to file for American citizenship. I soon realized I didn’t know if I was.
Ready to become an American citizen: what did that even mean? Was this who I was now: a potential American? Having lived in New York for a decade I knew I was ready to be called a New Yorker. But an American? That wasn't anywhere as clear. I took the time to think about it, wondering if I would fit in, wondering if this is where my heart was.
A year later I still had my doubts, so I decided to take the road, to go meet the rest of the country, to go meet ‘The People’. I wanted to find out who were the Americans and what it meant to be an American. I drove 10,000 miles over the course of 3 months and photographed the people I randomly met during the trip.