I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.
I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.
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.
I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.