My childhood was spent moving around a lot. To this day I have a hard time answering the question, “Where are you from?” And to this day, I’ll usually just answer it with a generic, “California.” I wrote obsessively as a kid and built wall-to-wall collages of imagery snipped from magazines. Mostly Rolling Stone. I had it big for Billy Corgan back in the day.

Mostly, though, I was constantly worried about forgetting my memories as I got older. But as fate would have it, a lot of memories from the 9th grade I would actually love to forget. ;)

When I was 16 my best friend taught me how to use a camera — a Canon AE-1. That’s when things started to get interesting. I no longer had to rely on my chicken scratch in a Lisa Frank notebook to remember things; all it took was the click of a button and whoomp! There it was.