My buddy Ejen who does a great job with the PIX blog mentioned that he likes to see a photographer's space/office. So here it is, my low-tech operation. I'm very specific what I surround myself by like the original Details magazines, Harper's Bazaar circa 92-99, Miles Davis in Fader and last but not least Kandinsky's Point and Line to Plane. The office is located in the Historic Core part of Downtown Los Angeles. My parents met two blocks from here in the 60's and my dad did architectural salvage at Bunker Hill when he was 14 years. So you can say I'm LA to the core. There is another side to this office that is identical. This room is strictly used for shooting. The images on the wall were done there because the light is so fantastic. They are lo-res composites for a possible exhibit. Not only are the compositions perfect but they capture a perfect moment when the hair and eyes are locked right in. When I blew them up it really made a big difference. Get it. Big. Because...now they're big. Forget it.

I've worked with Farm advertising before these towers were even built. My first assigment was a slice of life in downtown LA. You have to understand that there was hardly anything going on downtown. You couldn't even buy toilet paper after 9pm. These images were suppose to be projected in the showroom and used on the site to entice people to move downtown. I worked from 5:30am to 12am shooting my friends galleries, grand central market, golden gopher (only decent bar), parks, lofts, girls walking dogs.

Once I sent the images they asked me if it was all shot downtown. One thing I didn't know was that had scouted around two weeks before they had given me the assignment and told one another, "what is this guy going to shoot"?

Ana Henton of Mass Design (architect) once told me that those images were instrumental in the development of downtown LA.