![]() I always did photography as a hobby, but my portfolio started to get me some freelance work around 2008. We got married when I was 21 and I made ends meet for a number of years by working in a sheet metal factory, in retail, and I even used to hawk jewelry on the street. I met a British girl over there, and we ended up moving back to New York together. I lived there by myself in my late teens and supported myself by working as a window cleaner. I finished high school at 18 and moved away as far as I could get from home - which ended up being Dublin, Ireland. When I reached my early teens my stepfather joined a religious group and proceeded to brainwash me, and this ended up being a really difficult thing to escape. ![]() ![]() On the surface we had a pretty normal looking suburban life but behind closed doors there was major dysfunction with my stepfather: alcoholism, heroin addiction, and abuse. My parents divorced when I was 7 and my mother remarried when I was 8. I was born in New York City in 1986 and grew up in a few places just North of the city. Can you talk briefly about your background? Do you feel it informs your work, why or why not?
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