He has been troubled by drugs and bad influences across the board since a very early age. He does what he can to stay afloat, and it's not working a 9-5 job that most of us would be happy with. The power and self destructive power mentally and physically make him an intimidating person, however; his ability to permanently or knowingly hurt another person is furthest from his heart. He just does what he has too in the moment.
When we took this photo it was about 1am, and he was explaining to me that this would be the last time we would see each other. While I assured him otherwise, he sat at the computer desk, the desk lamp was silhouetting his profile fairly well, and I couldn't resist grabbing my camera. Just before I snapped this photo he grabbed a lighter as if he was going to light his cigar assuring me he wasn't actually going to light it. The result has great balance of light and shadow, a good hard edged profile of his face, and the symbolism (at least on a personal level) at the time was this feeling of love and being within a serene moment knowing that at least until the sun came up we could be us. Brothers.
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