Documenting human beings and their infinite, mesmerizing, ever-changing mysteries is what interests me about photography. A person...a moment...the miracle of a fleeting second of truth in a lifetime, a gathering, a true love....Affections, thought, happiness... I want the camera not to be an intruder, but a witness; unobtrusive; an instrument used to capture the gift of a moment in, say, a child's day...some inimitable and enduring quality in a friendship, a marriage...a second of joy or meaning captured from a family gathering, a wedding, a special party...

A picture, I believe, is worth far more than a thousand words. I aspire to photograph people as they are in their own selves. This, I find, is where the timelessness, the mystery and the endless depth of our lives lie. This is my art.

- Sarah McGarghan