For me, making photographs is as much about connecting with people as it is about creating images. In recent years, I've photographed amateur boxers in the old mill towns north of Boston, young activists in the Black Lives Matter movement, volunteers working in food pantries, Trump supporters and Bernie devotees.

Most of those projects took a documentary – photo journalistic – style approach, where my objective is to be present and invisible, hoping my subjects remain unaware of me and my camera so that the images will feel natural, and take the viewer someplace they may not have been able to go on their own.

But here on Cape Cod, I took a different approach. I sought out farmers and foragers, actors and authors, chefs and shellfish farmers, artists and artisans – people who grow the food we eat, play the music we enjoy, write the books we read – and made portraits of my subjects in the places where they live and work. Never asking anyone to pose, or offering direction of any kind, I simply tried to make a picture at the moment I felt I could reveal some small truth about the person in front of the camera.

The exhibit, July 22 at the Brewster Ladies Library, is dedicated to my good friend the late Richard Payne, of Brewster.