Ever since I can remember, I wanted to be a photographer. At times I’ve wanted to be professional, but any time I simply wanted to take photographs. When I finally got a camera in my teens, I didn’t change my mind. There’s something about framing an image that has a very deep appeal. I got a good camera, and by that time cameras were already getting clever, with autofocus and auto exposure....
When I was at school, I was oddly serious about school projects. I had a mild obsession with making them look like professional books or brochures. We didn’t have a computer, but I steered my parents into getting a proportional-spacing typewriter and used that (which dates this), and a photocopier to change sizing of chunks of text. I also scraped together enough cash to get a DeVilbiss Super 63A airbrush, an old second-hand compressor, and rigged a system that let me use the compressed air at my homemade homework desk....