Interview: Torrance Hall
Did you always know you wanted to be a creative and a photographer?
TORRANCE: I always knew that I wanted to be an artist of some sort. I spent so much of my childhood merging books or video games I played with my own reality. I always loved sketching out alien worlds, creating characters and fantastical scenarios that closely mirrored my everyday life. I have so many memories of escaping to the woods and transforming into different identities I had fabricated for myself the night before. I really enjoyed playing different roles as a kid and the woods always acted as my stage. There was no judgement, no boundaries and I could become whoever I wanted to be.
Photography came to me unexpectedly while I was in middle school. My parents brought home a digital camera one day and for whatever reason I had become completely infatuated by it. It quickly became a ritual to sneak into their bedroom everyday after school and teach myself to properly operate it. Figuring out the basics of image-making came very naturally to me and before I knew it I began taking images all over the place.