Occupation: Photographer Birth: 1969
For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things..
I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers..
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 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 ….
Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer..
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..
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….
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….
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….
Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people..
If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?.
For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself..
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….
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….
It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me..
For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter..
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….
Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life..
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….
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….