Brandy Byhoffer

I investigated a 110 year old theatre in hopes of connecting with the ghost of an old janitor.

This is me at 16. Myspace and Flickr obsessed, 2007. I was very attached to that red henley, which started out as a pajama shirt and wound up being my go-to “sweater.” One camera is a Sony Cybershot that died about three years later of Cantholdacharge. The other is a film camera, I forget what kind. Please also notice the lump in my pocket: a Nokia flip phone.

My friend, who would later be my girlfriend (and may not appreciate me using her name, so will be called “C”-- and no, that’s not the first letter of her name), took this photo on her film camera. Had it developed at Costco, probably. C, my other friend Y (also not related to her real name), and I all thought we were little photographers. I mean, we were, for all intents and purposes. I used Corel Paint Shop Pro to edit and was constantly updating my Myspace profile photo and layout.