From KCRW, this is Nokter. Adam Katzif is a fine arts photographer based in Boston. His work has been shown in museums and galleries and has also been featured in numerous publications, including the New Yorker and Wired magazine.

Much of his work focuses on the natural world, which is where he first discovered his interest in photography.

So I started in photography.

So I started in photography late in high school and I remember going to Walden Pond growing

up in Massachusetts.

That was always a class field trip.

And I remember being with a friend who was a pretty avid photographer

and I had never picked up a camera at that point and I just can I can remember walking around with him saying hey take a picture of that take a picture that hey come back over here I want you to take a picture of this and that and this. And finally he said, my God, you are going to take this camera yourself and make your own pictures because I'm tired of this. And so for me, the magic happened actually with a mistake.

And that he, so he gave me the camera,

this was filmed 35 millimeter,

and there was this mystery box.

And he mentioned that sometimes this camera got a little bit jammed and didn't rewind right and that if that happened to bring it back to the dark room and we would we would take care of that together.

And so sure enough, this was a Pentex K-1000 and I remember being out shooting and just the experience of it.

It was like it gave me this excuse to wander and to look and to observe and I probably made a lot of lousy pictures but it almost

justified the the exploration of everyday things which for me was one of the most liberating moments of my life I think.

But the camera itself got jammed and I was I said you know I'm pretty handy I don't think I'm

I want to keep shooting I don't want to stop now so I have another role of

film so I opened up the back of the camera and I watched the film you know I sort of I said a yeah that's there's where it got jammed and I started pushing the film back into the film canister and you know I pushed it all in pretty proud of myself and put in my pocket load another film did the same.

Got back to the dark room and I showed my friend what happened and he said, wait a minute, so you're saying you saw the film and I said oh yeah I saw it and he says about how much of it and I said oh good

couple of feet of it I'd say probably the whole thing you know I was pretty chipper

about this thinking like I'd really been handy and he goes give me the

roll and I handed it to him and he just tossed it in the garbage and I said whoa what the

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