I’d never driven in New York. It was a Ricky Martin commercial. I did some damage to some parts of the truck that probably never got recorded. It was bad.

Then once I was here, I decided to find a gallery or some representation in New York and then leave, but have a base to send things back to. It was the idea of having something to ground me that I can throw things to and still be out in the mist, because if you’re out in the mist you just disappear, unless you have a tether.
 
How did the site come to exist?
I don’t think I even thought it through. I just started uploading and it was a way for me to figure out [the idea of] series in my work, because for me, the individual photo is never interesting to me. You could take 1000 photos and you’re going to get one that’s cool. But to be able to make it move beyond just an image into something that moves people interests me, and that’s how Passport to Trespass came to into being.

How did things change upon the success of the site?
Fast-forward six years later, I had friends who—like this one woman, Mandy Lamb, who I had photographed for years, would be walking down the street and someone would say, “Oh hey, I know you from this blog.”  And I would think, That’s weird. Then I’d have people leaving comments like “Hey you’re in this town. Let’s hang out.” And I’d think, I don’t know who you people are.  I didn’t realize I had opened up this dialogue. And this was occurring as Facebook, Twitter, and all these things are accelerating and everybody’s got their entire life online.