I first picked up a disposable when I was 11 years old. I was a collector. Before I found photography I would pick up everything and put it in a box. I had countless plastic boxes with little dividers full of spiders, rocks, shells, fungus and numerous other objects. When I was given that first camera, I saw it as a way to easily collect all the things that I had before, except this time I could save all of the other things that were previously impossible to fit into a 1″ x 1″ compartment. I have been photographing things for over 10 years now. Over Thanksgiving I began sorting through the boxes of photographs to see what I had actually saved. Its kinda crazy, photography has been one of the most consistent things throughout my life. I updated my website with a selection of these images. I am still playing with some of the layout.

I don’t know that these are about anything in particular. I started photographing as a collector and I don’t think that the camera still functions in the same way for me. For the most part, the images that I selected represent a specific moment or place in my life, some significant and some not. In that way they are collected. Maybe its only when you have work that spans a long period of time that you can look at it in a more removed way. I do feel removed from these, but they still hold something for me. This is half my life. I grew up from when some of these first images were made until now, as cheesy as growing up is.