I began working with film when I was about 9, just playing around with the family VHS camera. My friends and I made short films, editing in-camera, and screened them for our own enjoyment. In high school I took my first photography courses and received a Canon AE-1 as a gift from my father. I spent hours upon hours in the school's darkroom, listening to Danish indie music on a boom box that we found in the janitor's closet. The smell of the developer was dizzying, but addictive; enough so that I could be found in the dark room long after school had dismissed and everyone had...more
