“25 - 35”
A Filmmakers Journey
A Decade of Love, Failures, and Conquests.
These Polaroids capture scattered moments from 2022 to the Present Day.
Just recently, around July of 2024, I visited my friends Nate & Nate over at The Benjamin in Hollywood. As of writing this, it is one of the best places, if not the best place in Los Angeles to grab a drink.
Nate Oliver is the Bar Manager and Nate Castro the Bar lead. I brought my friend Cam along for good company, and we happened to meet the owner and his friend who was visiting from Hawaii.
They had grown up together as kids and remained friends well into adulthood. He noticed my Polaroid camera, and we got to chatting.
As I was showing him some of my favorites, he looked up from my phone and said something that has stuck with me ever since:
“Man, you live such a fulfilled life.”
It was a little surreal.
This industry has been so unforgiving and so relentlessly difficult.
The uncertainty of what’s next, what’s to come, is this the right decision, the “what if’s” and all the stress that comes along with it, is always present - a constant. Sometimes you forget to look around.
But, along the way, I’ve stumbled upon some beautiful people.
And with them, some truly precious moments.
