In school I studied both design and photography. I graduated with a foot still firmly planted in each camp not sure which career should be my focus. Fortunately enough, I was soon offered a position with the Charles S. Anderson Design Company where it would be my job to photograph–with state-of-the-art equipment–Chuck’s personal collection of over 50,000 of the world’s, rarest, most amazing plastic toys and trinkets. I took the job (naturally) figuring that this is pretty much how the real world worked and that I would drift through life being offered job after job just like this one. Perspective is a tricky thing, you think I would have learned that much in art school.

Eventually the project came to an end, but ten years later these images keep popping up on book covers, in magazine editorials, on banner ads and packaging. They’ve been in the pages of Communication Arts, Photo District News, Time Magazine and more. They’ve been exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Whitespace Studio, and Luerzer’s Archive. The Plastock project remains the most fun I’ve ever had at work and the best project I’ve ever been a part of. Scroll down for more…