You can take all the pictures you want, but if you don't love what you are photographing, and I mean, really LOVE what is is that you've found yourself close enough to catch, your pictures will never have a soul, and everyone will see right through you. I promise.

I love candid work. I take pictures of the people I love... for the people in them, and the people who love them too.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and these ones are love letters.

I have a Batchelor of Fucking Art in documentary film based photography. I'm in Grad school now, and applying for a PhD, which is so far, not going terribly well. I talk to much, and I sleep to little... and I drink too much coffee.

I don't like most photographers... I think landscapes are boring, all kids are cute, and if you aren't going to be bold enough to get close, do not bother shooting strangers... we've all been outside before, and we know what people look like from 15 feet back, no need to "capture" this.

If I can recommend some work I do like: Terry Richardson, Nan Goldin, Nikki S Lee, Edward Steichen...

That being said, your camera is unimportant. What kind, what it cost, the tools you have... meaningless. You can't buy your way to being good at something. You can however buy your way to being clean, foolproof and properly exposed... but boringness will still haunt you, even with a Leica.

I realize that this may be cynical or rude, but I'm very uninspired these days. I guess I've been made bitter by fake vignette, selective colouring, and sepia photoshop effects..

I'm turning back to the place where I started from, the place where the pictures are for me and the people I know.

Next month I'm buying my first digital SLR, it will be weird. I've never shot with a digital camera, but it was bound to happen sometime. The switch was motivated by brokeness and my being too busy to buy, shot, develop or scan film... I'll still pop up from time to time... but I'm welcoming a new medium to the fold.

So the feed should come back to life shortly.