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 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.”