How I Transitioned From a Photographer to a Writer

I wanted to be a writer in college, but I realized pretty quickly I didn't have the chops for that. And I kind of fell into photography just as something that I like to do. It ended up being a pretty decent job and just kept me outside all the time, which I really wanted. The FDNY piece was because I'd been going around photographing sleeping addicts for, you know, days,. People passed out people in the midst of nodding out things like that. He let me fall around all day, interviewing him on video, taking photos.