He was born in California in 1963 and grew up in Denver, Colorado. He started making photographs at an early age and in high school worked as the yearbook photographer. For College he moved to Washington State and attended Evergreen State University where he studied photography. During 1983, using a 1958 Leica and tri-x, He made a series of photographs documenting a group of street punks hanging around the University District in Seattle. Abrams is slated to publish this body of work in Fall 09.