“I enjoyed the good fortune of working for a number of years with Jonathan Melamed, a photo editor with a unique creative vision and an openness to the new. This photograph is from a series about a large Victorian hall in Brooklyn, New York, that I shot for his magazine. The subjects of this multiday shoot ranged from interiors and child dancers to taxidermy and actress Kirstie Alley. After the initial scout, I wandered and photographed the space by myself, documentary-style. I really enjoyed this way of working, as it used a different muscle than the one I usually flex on my more staged and directed shoots.”