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If I can be in a place where my image is encouraging people to see different people behind the camera, and my image and the images I make can help open up a certain world view, I think that's all a part of a larger spirit of change and progress, and I'm happy to be part of it.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

To photograph is to confer importance.

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.