I love photographing Kimbra. She's sharp, charismatic, and not afraid to explore. She wrote to me a few years ago, when no one would write to me, and asked me to take her picture. We’ve been friends since. I have active friendships with the majority of people I shoot. They’re my peers – around my age with similar interests and a passion for photography – and I think that helps create a sense of intimacy in the photos.

Recently, Kimbra has been sharing more of her own self portraits online, and it is exciting to see how her relationship to photography is shifting. While making these images, we talked about photography, self portraits, and our own lives, and it is conversations like these that make me most inspired to shoot.