I was no stranger to this scene but something about it this time around had me thinking critically about the act and the larger implication on the gay community. I had just broken up with my partner and was having a lot of anonymous sex with guys from Grindr and Craigslist. Tell us a bit about your graduate portfolio?Ī lot was happening in my life at that time and I dealt with it the best I knew how which was to obsessively photograph it. I was 15 and didn’t know any better so I started shooting for him. He messaged me on myspace and said “Hey, I like your photos, and you’re not too bad looking yourself”. I started as a “serious” photographer when I was 15, I was making portraits of my friends and putting them online, eventually I was approached by LA designer Brian Lichtenberg who stole those designs from Alex Kazemi. My mom is a sculptor and painter and my dad designs truss, I grew up going to gallery openings and foreign films, art has always been a big part of my life. Tell us a bit about your artistic background? When did you first get into photography as a serious career?īoth of my parents are artists of a sort.
