Woman and Tings

Pat Parra is a 26 year old Chilean Jewish American who started feeling connected to photography after getting cheated on in Peru in 2004. His pictures journal his experiences with rebounding and healing process from 2004-2008. He is a featured photographer on Lovebryan.com and currently lives in San Francisco, Ca.

"They say redheads are 1 in 100. But there is no one in six billion like Pat Parra. He relates to this world like no other, moving through the physical space guided only by the intangible. Pat sees and feels with a subconscious, psychic ability that evades all logic. He inhabits a level we will never fully understand.

Pat started as an incredibly talented musician, and his photography is another outlet for the same creative forces. His pictures are like love songs, loosely composed with embattled emotion and intense passion. He develops deep connections with his subjects that we feel before we see. He's not concerned with technique or camera gear or other photographers' work. For Pat, making photographs is a singular expression straight from heart to subject to camera, with no distractions, no impurities. Each frame is a flood of feeling, neither good nor bad, but simply meaningful. Taking time with Pat's photos is to meditate on the complexities of being human in a spiritual world."

Words by Bryan Derballa of lovebryan.com and bryanderballa.com