“As an artist I began to feel that I was making collectibles for wealthy people…with apex I turned into more of an educator…and the fellowship…
“I looked back on my life and was like, I’ve done a lot of tearing down, a lot of dismantling of my life to move…
“I think even in storytelling and making pictures there’s so much noise and it’s so busy and here’s this conflict and this violence and for…
“That was at the very end of Thailand, I was just starting to think I didn’t want to play poker anymore and I was starting…
“When the shelling got too bad my mom would hide us in the bathroom and say it’s just raining really hard and this is the…
“The people that I dealt with were quite fascinating to me because I came from a completely different perspective and I began following them and…
“There is sort of a desert in Richmond Virginia, there was no photo gallery, there are a couple of blue-chip galleries…but my feeling is I…
“I really wanted to kind of tackle women being empowered by physical fitness, and being empowered by sports, and what let me into that was…
“It’s just amazing how like when you kind of put energy out, like a certain type of energy that you want to be around and…
“I don’t think I was really ready to break out as a photographer, but I was ready to break out as like my own spirit.”…