There's a voodoo store down the street from where you live in Brooklyn. Do you buy stuff?
Haha, no—I've been tempted, though. They have things like jealousy powder and jinx spray. I'm scared I'd misuse them!

Where's this graveyard?
That's Greenwood Cemetery in West Brooklyn. It's one of the most beautiful places in New York, I think, and it's right where the city's best Mexican food is. So after all the ghost-busting, you can go get a great burrito.

What happened to the goldfish after the shoot?
Yeah, I bought three baby fish just for the shoot, and after a few days of trying to raise them in a green plastic bucket, I decided the only way to give little Pinto, Billy, and Cupid the quality of life they deserved was to return them to the fish shop. The shop wouldn't give my money back, though, so now I'm sitting on ten fish-store dollars! Someone's getting a great birthday present...

How do you come up with the concepts for your shoots?
Thankfully, I am easily inspired by very common things; things are always popping up on the street, in the dollar store, into my head in the shower... Lately I've been trying to write all these little inspirations down, and just reading the top three from the running list I keep on my cell phone, they apparently include: 1) potted plants on aluminum platter in subway; 2) young girl holding ziplock full of water; 3) aerial waiting dance. Etcetera. These bizarre catchphrases are what generally grow up into loose concepts for planned shoots, and the best shoots usually develop from the ones whose original content I cannot, for the life of me, recall. What the hell is an "aerial waiting dance?" I don't know, but it sounds fun!

Did you play music for your models, and give them any dance tips?
There was music! Everyone involved pitched in on the playlist, and in the end we moved to everything from Bowie to Fever Ray to Nicki Minaj (all of which, perhaps unsurprisingly, yield pretty much the same dance moves). As for direction, the only thing I think I said before Magic Dance hit the speakers was, "like a business man doing the freak." You can't really tell someone how to dance, you know? All you can really do is suggest trying the robot every once and a while.

How did you start taking photos?
For most of my life, my secret artistic hobby was drawing, not photography, but during a particularly busy period a few years ago I started using a little digital camera to take visual notes for drawings I didn't have time to make. Kind of like how I now write whacko notes in my phone such as "like a business man doing the freak." Photography has a very appealing relationship to the real world—which is hard to find anywhere else. After a while I wasn't really drawing anymore, I was just taking pictures. So here I am, I guess.