Kiam Marcelo Junio
Chicago (2004) 

Tomorrow, for my photo class, we are talking about our personal artistic journeys.  We are looking back to our current and older work and the artists who have shaped our way of seeing the world.

My first major purchase as an independent young adult was a film camera, a Canon EOS Rebel K2.  These photos are from my first roll of Black and White film.  Interestingly enough, I was living an hour north of Chicago at the time (during US Navy Hosptital Corpsman “A” School, after Boot Camp).  I remember feeling a sense of freedom I had never experienced before, with my camera as a natural extension of my body.  

This is how I fell in love with photography.