A lot of my photos don’t have anything to do with Blood of the Young. That zine was a side project that took over. It’s improved my work, though. The experience of working on someone else’s photos means that I can edit my own work better. We go through hundreds of submissions all the time and looking at that many photos gives me a better idea of what I want to shoot.

Dimitri [Karakostas, co-founder of BOTY and No Fun Press] and I are mostly into the same stuff and I think that’s why we’ve always worked so well together. I’ll be like, ‘Holy shit this is hilarious–I want to do this!’ and either he’ll laugh and I’ll do it or he’ll be like, ‘What the fuck is your problem?’ and I’ll either do it anyway or not do it.

A lot of the clothing stuff isn’t completely related. It’s just an aesthetic thing. We always thought bootleg stuff was really funny and it sort of links up with the zine. We made a bunch of Simpsons bootleg shirts to make more dough, to make more zines, and people loved them so we keep doing them.