For “Everyone Knows This is Nowhere”, photographer Shane McCauley and his crew had some trouble in the desert outside of Los Angeles. “One of our models got in a car accident on the way to the set, a bunch of other models canceled, and by the time we started shooting it was so hot I almost fried my lights in a swimming pool,” he says of his first story for Inked. Luckily, he’s not scarred enough to abandon photography for his secondary career choices, astronaut or pirate captain. McCauley—whose work can also be seen in Anthem, The Fader, Blender, Alternative Press, and Rolling Stone—lives in Brooklyn.