Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.

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."