I didn't want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It's just not what I am. I'm a photographer and I make pri….

It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me..

You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was a pri….

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people..

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things..

This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a bett….

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as ….

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in my w….

The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpret….

If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creat….

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film..

Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and then you ca….

In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you deal with making photograp….

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a….

Every once in a while I have this revelation like, "Wow, a hundred years ago the world wasn't black and white." It was in color. Photographed in a ce….

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in..

If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?.

Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer..

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life..

The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making ….

For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself..