I bought this URL twice before I knew what I'd put on it. Survival jobs since then, a camera that never stopped working, and a life that finally reads like something I built on purpose instead of something that happened to me. This is where I write it down.
The personal is the collective.
A photojournalism degree from the analog era. A career that went sideways into service industry, not from lack of vision, from lack of a map. I've been documenting the whole time anyway, on 35mm and on paper and now here.
Eighty-one days of cannabis sobriety and what it actually taught me about the nervous system, not the version people want to hear.
Practical tools for aging without a script, built from what worked on my own body first.
The habit of keeping records, on film and in writing, that started as a job and became a way of surviving.
New videos most weeks at @KharisReimagines. Reactions, testimony, and the parts of the journey that are easier to say out loud than type.