"Saudade" (2013 - present) explores the lives of Portuguese people residing in agricultural towns that are intertwined with the Portuguese bloodless bullfighting community in California's Central Valley. As a Portuguese Canadian American now living in Southern California, I’m interested in exploring the ways in which diasporic communities preserve their culture and identity by making connections to home in a strange new place - while distance, time, and differing resources alter their memories of home. This series of portraits is inspired by Flemish paintings of the 15-17th centuries. The Flemish immigrated to the Azores (islands off the coast of Portugal) in the 15th century. Since there was such a large Flemish settlement, the Azores were known as the Flemish Islands. The Portuguese diaspora of California mainly came from this Portuguese archipelago. There has always been a class system in Portuguese bullfighting, with "cavaleiros" fighting on horseback, representing nobility, and "forcados" representing the working class cowboy. With these portraits I’m aiming to put the different types of bullfighters on a level field, photographing them all in a similar way while contrasting their differences.