My name is Tony Hogrefe, I am a United States Marine & veteran of Iraq and Somalia. 10 years of service in some of the unfriendliest parts of the world taught me how to pay attention to details, and how to read people. That sort of thing sticks with you, and it has carried over into my photography.

I bounced around for a couple years after coming home from Iraq, and in 2005 decided I’d better figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up. There isn’t much demand for infantrymen in the private sector. I started college and was studying to be a teacher. Two semesters in, I decided to take an intro to photography class to cover an elective. I immediately fell in love with the math and science of analog photography, and the creativity gave me an outlet to release some of the monsters I brought back from Iraq.

I changed majors immediately, and for the last 20+ years I have been a working photographer in one capacity or another.