It was around 2014 when I first moved to LA. One of Syd [Tha Kyd’s] childhood friends – his name is Justin, he’s a photographer also and shoots their day-to-day stuff and goes on tour with them – randomly sent me a DM [on Instagram] one day and said, “You should shoot Syd’.”

I was already familiar with The Internet and just Odd Future in general … so I was like, “Of course I would love to do it.” So we shot just me and Syd the first time in a studio in Downtown LA and it was no real theme or anything. It was just like, “Bring some clothes.” I had some backdrops, and let’s just see what we can get.

[It was the] evening so she was already kind of tired from the day, so the shoot was just really laid back, just really chill. We just had some different backdrops. She just brought some different clothes, I had some balloons and some confetti, just random props laying around and we just worked out and just meshed real well .. [But] we didn’t even talk after that. She posted the pictures – she used them for a couple things – so I knew she liked them but we didn’t really become friends yet.

And she sent me an email a couple months later, asked if I wanted to shoot the band’s album cover for Ego Death. So that’s when I was able to meet the rest of the band. And from there that’s when I started to hang with them more and start to connect with them. And that’s when we started to kind of build a relationship that continued to go on even after the Ego Death album.