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I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

For a period of time, I carried cameras with me wherever I went, and then I realized that my interest in photography was turning toward the conceptual. So I wasn't carrying around cameras shooting stuff, I was developing concepts about what I wanted to shoot. And then I'd get the camera angle and do the job.

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.

I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.

When I graduated, I felt a little burned out on taking pictures after so many years of churning out so many for classes.

Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.

I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.