 It's tricky photographing people. They're not always happy with how you see them. From the second you wake up, do you pull the covers over your head or do you throw them off and get out of bed? Most of the days in my life are really different. Editing hundreds or thousands of photographs, going through negatives, travel with three cameras, meeting people. Sometimes I shoot tons of rolls every day. Photographing people is an extremely vulnerable exercise. Getting people to show you something really intimate. One of the only directions that I really give to people is take a deep breath. With a lot of people that I photograph, they tend to not like their photographs right away, and then give it a day or a week or a month, and they'll tell me that it's the most real photograph that they've actually ever had taken of them. And something that's really important to me is photographing the reality. Just like why I shoot analog, it takes space and time for reality to unfold. Film just has so many more layers, and I like playing with those layers. There are so many perspectives that you can change it at any given moment. I try to not think about it too much and just put stuff out consistently and keep making more. Being an artist is embracing the unknown at all times.