Moments

Photographs by Claire Yaffa
Foreword by Gordon Parks

In 1998, after a year of photographing the homeless in shelters in Westchester County, Claire Yaffa took a photo of a tulip at the window in her home in upstate New York. This proved a turning point in her creative life, and she spent the next three years, between assignments, exploring the world of light and shadow. In Moments she has created a visual poem that evokes the subtle emotions involved with chance encounters and fleeting events. Her photographs are intimate visions of life's unexpected joys and sorrows-and the anticipation of moments yet to come. The images are drawn from familiar objects and surroundings, but are transformed by the unique combination of skill, devotion and love she brings to the subjects she chooses to photograph.

Claire Yaffa is a freelance photographer known for her social realism, exploring the topics of child abuse, children with AIDS, and the homeless.