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I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

I like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present.

I always collect images, maybe because I was working with historic material - but even if I were working with contemporary material, I would do the same thing. I keep a kind of index of them while I'm working. I find them incredibly useful, not so much to illustrate a time, but to give some sense of the feeling of a time.

There's a whole load of stuff in life that is worth documenting. You see it every day but don't even notice.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

I realized so much of my life hasn't been in a well-lit room, and I realized the importance of documenting my experiences as a way to memorialize them.

I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.