A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."

I'm not going to hide behind anything.

I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."

Growing up, my room was covered in posters. I was like, "I want to make posters."

Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic design, you were all taking the same classes, but the photographers just went straight into photography.