i asked for a camera on my ninth birthday so i could be, you know, a documentary photographer. So it seems now that it's hard to believe that that was really like what i was going to decide to be. But t that moment, it was important to me. And a camera was bought for me for my birthday, and i used it throughout his life to document my life. Even when we moved to california, i used my baby sitting money to build a dark room in the house where i ruined the family tilesof the bthroom with chemistry.