At 10 years old, my dad bought a kodak 110 camera for me with which I shot this photo in July of 1985. I only know this because the original 3×5 photo has the date stamped on the front. Although I wasn’t fully cognizant of the power of the image, I realized then that “pictures could be important”  and that a camera could be a tool for expression, documentation, and leveling the artistic playing field for creatives.