I’ve been obsessed with photography since I was young—though at the time, I mostly aimed my lens at stray cats and poorly-lit birthday cakes. It wasn’t long before I realized that this hobby of mine was about more than just filling up shoeboxes with blurry prints. Photography became my first true love, the thing that opened the door to visual communication.

Even now, I carry a camera in my bag —because you never know when inspiration will strike, or when someone will do something truly ridiculous that needs to be immortalized. It’s through photography that I learned how to communicate, how to sell, and, most importantly, the rare joy of getting lost in a “creative flow” state, where hours vanish and you emerge with something remarkable—or at least something better than a stray cat in bad lighting.