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Ever since my early days working out of a grip truck, I knew that when I was in a position to make decisions, it would be my responsibility to assemble crews that looked like the world we live in. I wanted to help create environments where any 12-ye… — Ever since my early days working out of a grip truck, I knew that when I was in a position to make decisions, it would be my responsibility to assemble crews that looked like the world we live in. I wanted to help create environments where any 12-year-old girl, no matter what color she was, or any 12-year-old boy, no matter where he came from, would be able to walk onto my stage, stand in the doorway, and see the possibility of a future.

“Looking back at my work is like looking back into a time that has shaped our present. It was a period of becoming aware of my country and myself as a person. I was pretty young, fifteen years old when I started taking pictures. My world was shaping me every day. It was giving me a point of view. We are always in a state of becoming and there’s no arrival. My perception of things is continually changing. Nothing is stagnant.”

John Simmons, ASC | January 2020