“I never thought I was going to be a photographer. For four years I was just taking pictures because I was really into it and that’s just what I did. Then at the end of 2001, once I started to show my work a little and right around the time index published my first book, I remember saying to myself, ‘Oh, I’m actually a photographer now!’”
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