There are many paths to a career in photography, no path is correct, no path is the same, there is only your path. That is how up and coming photographer Greg King could best describe his journey so far. Up until about six years ago King had no desire whatsoever to use anything more then a point and shoot camera, and even that was only on the rarest of occasions. This sounds even more surprising when you find out his father was a professional photographer for over thirty years.

"I always appreciated photography, I just never thought it was for me," said King. All that changed back in 2004, when he asked to borrow one of his fathers old cameras for the simple reason of trying to create some art for the empty walls inside his new apartment. "It was a lot of trial and error at first, just as it still is. But once I started to have my ideas and visualizations realized, something inside of me just clicked, and there was no turning back." After that King was no longer shooting because he wanted to, he was shooting because he had to. It was now a large part of who he is and who he is becoming.

King, who's more or less self taught finds himself always experimenting, which he feels allows his personal style to continuously evolve. Tending to stray away from more traditional compositions, his vision is to create abstract, dreamlike images where the only limitation is your own imagination.

Spend any time with King while he's working and you'll notice that his technique tends to be quite spontaneous, rather then researched and planned out. The only exception to his spontaneity is the preference to shoot on days with inclement weather, which King says helps produce that dramatic effect he's looking for. In most cases he'll just allow his surroundings to dictate what it is he'll be shooting on any particular day. Never quite knowing where the next image is going to turn up, walk with him down any New York city street and you will see that he's constantly scanning the environment for his next artistic opportunity. King believes that at the core of every artist, the desire to make something out of nothing is what drives them, and he's no different. He feels that inspiration is constantly around you, and it is up to the photographer to ask themselves a series of questions. What can I find? How can I make this point of view interesting? And most importantly, how can I turn that view into art?

As I began to get a better understanding of how Greg King sees his own work, I asked him what he wants others to take away from his photographs. "I want to create an image one can get lost in, even if its only for a few seconds. I want to draw them in and connect with them on an emotional level. Thats my goal, and I hope its working."