Transformation is a beautifully traumatic process - physical and emotional - the pain of change and the joy of discovery. First Breath is a collection of images of transformation. The restless frozen moments in time when we grow and change and leave behind the people we once were. Too often, photography of dancers focuses just on a beautiful image of a beautiful body, idealizing the obvious and ignoring the past and the future that lie on either side of the moment. Like tides carving out the slope of the sand or wind sweeping across the dunes, I asked the dancers to feel the elements changing their bodies and shaping their movements. The forces that transform us are invisible. All we can recognize is that First Breath as we emerge.