I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.
Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.
I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.
That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.
I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.
I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.