I headed out to Pittsburgh, where I took some photos for Soma Mestizo, but mostly spent the time camped out with my friend Ilya who was helping me with this website stuff. He basically built all of the infrastructure in the space of a month, but without having finished editing my photos, I couldn’t really plug the content into it. I thought that it would take me a month or two tops… unfortunately, life doesn’t really stop on a dime just because you need time to get caught up, and it ended up taking me over a year to be ready to go…

One of the notable shoots this month however was for Pig Iron Theatre’s Isabella – when people asked me what I’d done that day, I got a great reactions to my response: “Oh, I spent a bunch of time locked in the dark in a walk-in-refrigerator, with a naked man with a hacksaw…