I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.

And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do.

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

Today a lot of things are so celebrity-oriented; it's only because it's celebrity and the photograph is lost. To me it's important to have an image that is a photograph first, not about necessarily who that person is.

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.