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If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.

As writers, we do our best to conjure a world so vivid that the reader can practically walk through it - but we're still only using words and relying on readers to do a lot of work of imagining. Providing pictures as well as words offers a whole new dimension to the experience of consuming a story.

As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.