I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.
My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.
I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.
My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.