WHAT SPARKED YOUR INTEREST IN PHOTOGRAPHY?
My interest in photography was gradual, so I can’t pinpoint one moment. I remember, with fondness, a cheap, throw-away camera that my parents bought me when I was about five or six years old. This experience probably planted the initial seed within me to want to be a photographer.
Also, I have an older cousin who is a talented photographer whose work I admired when I was about 11. And so, when I was 12, I used the money I had raised from my newspaper route to buy myself a used Canon EOS Rebel T2i from a local hock shop (pawnbroker). At first, I took pictures of anything and everything, such as cobwebs with raindrops on them, flowers, and my cats. However, I remember that I especially enjoyed taking photos of children.
HOW DID THE PROJECT OF PHOTOGRAPHING THE HOMELESS START?
Shortly after I took up photography, I was going to quit.