I began photographing the world around me at age 10. My father, who was a professional photographer, gave me a role of film and an instamatic camera and said take some pictures.
The instamatic was great and it sometimes leaked light and created all kinds of happy accidents. From there I graduated to a Canon 35mm at 14 and it changed my life and my photographs.
I found I could take double exposures and use both black and white and color film, using filters to adjust all the photographs in all kinds of ways that were impossible before.
In college I was happiest in the black and white film lab, where I was now able to change the exposure and of the photographs I took. The experimental nature combined with my creative abilites took my photographs to the next level.
I found early on I was a different kind of photographer and was not interested in taking 10-20 photos of the same subject. Instead I usually take only one photograph, waiting to have the film processed to see the results and only then deciding if I should go back and take another photo.