text:  I was a gifted kid. I went to high school two years early. So my second year in high school, my grades sort of fell off a cliff, and there was more and more upset in the home. And then I ended up dropping out of high school altogether. I got put in a psychiatric unit. I got put in an inpatient-outpatient treatment center for eight months. Photography became his escape, and he eventually began traveling the globe for National Geographic magazine.