All I do is make photos. It's my life.

Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.

I was never raised with anybody telling me that gay was bad.

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.

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

I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.