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I am a photographer who lives in Savannah, Georgia. At the age of nine or twelve (I can't remember which, but it was definitely one or the other) I was given my first camera as a Christmas, or birthday or Hannukah gift. Just like everyone else. I used this Brownie or Polaroid Big Shot or other hilariously named, quaintly low-tech kiddie camera for a while to take unsurprising pictures of my friends, family and pets. After a short time, I put it in a drawer with all my other junk and forgot about it. None of which has anything to do with the fact that I make pictures today.

I also "work" in Savannah - this shouldn't come as a shock, given the fact that I live there. But I aspire to be a dual-city artist "dividing my time" between Savannah and either Detroit - the city of my birth - or Alligator, Mississippi, because I figure the real estate there is probably pretty cheap.

I have two art degrees, but I don't hold them, ever.

I am married to Rob Walker, columnist for the New York Times Magazine, author of two fine books (three if you count comic books), co-creator of the sublimely pleasurable Significant Objects, and "the Michael Bierut of Objectified." Take his Metapoll.

We share our orange house with El Rey, the King of the Dogs. Who is also orange.

For actual credentials, see resume link up top.

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