The photographer who calls himself Joey L., 24, grew up loving Halloween he dropped his last name to avoid association with a “cheesy ’80s actor” who shares it. As a child in rural Ontario, Canada, he made his own costumes. The goal, he said, was to be as scary as possible. “My dad was an antique restoration guy, so we made all these freaky prostheses and wounds,” he said. “Demons and weird stuff.”

via Seeing Halloween, as if for the First Time – NYTimes.com.