Hi, my name is Jake. I’ve been obsessed with cameras ever since I began filming my friends & I skateboarding. When I took a trip to New York City with my family in the Winter of 2008, I was so overwhelmed by the beauty & energy of the city that I begged my Mom to let me use her point-and-shoot camera to take pictures of everything. She relented, and so I ran around the city, camera in hand, thinking to myself: “yeah, I want to do this forever.”