Occupation: Photographer Birth: 1969
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 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….
I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film..
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….
For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things..
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 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..
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….
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….
For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter..
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….
Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life..
It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me..
Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's languag….
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….
Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes….
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..
If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?.
Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people..
Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer..