I was given a camera by my Grandfather when I was in grade 9, because my drawing was not very good. I came from a family of artists on my mother's side, so I was surrounded by painting, drawing and exhibits from an early age. Eventually, I made photography my singular medium and began to really focus on the technical aspects.

I attended the Rhode Island School of Design, then left for the Art Institute of Philadelphia- probably the single best move I have made. It allowed me both to focus purely on photography, and it introduced me to the Diana Camera. The Diana was a little toy camera that our Director Robert Crites used, and it was as low tech as you could get. While he taught us every technical thing in our classes, it was the blurry images that were on his wall that really caught my eye.

Right before graduation, in 1991- we were introduced to Adobe photoshop 2.0, and a whole new world emerged. Shortly after, John Weiss spoke at our school and said he would be starting a digital imaging program at the University of Delaware, so I collected one diploma and headed south to work on another. Nearly 20 years on, I make my living working for a big studio retouching images in photoshop- so for my personal work I choose to do the exact opposite- all film, toy cameras and no post production.