Richmond Alleys: 20 Years Later

In September 2001 I got my first digital camera, in fact, aside from test shots, the first thing I ever photographed digitally was the Pentagon on fire on 9/11. In January 2002 I started attending Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA to get my BFA in photography and filmmaking. VCU had a fantastic fine art program, but the problem was I am not a fine artist. I mostly just photographed bands at that point and my favorite photographers were documentarians not “Artists’ with a capital A. I saw digital photography as the future and I didn’t have the patience for the darkroom or the goofy ass conversations I had to have every day about the meaning behind some blurry black …