Occupation: Photographer Birth: 1955
Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physicall….
In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience o….
Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to….
On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a cam….
What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sens….
For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalne….
It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradi….
I have always found the suburbs very beautiful – the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so interested in the political dimensions of th….
It's a profoundly different thing to be able to refer to the images you are taking at the time and check them out on a laptop that is plugged into yo….
You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body..
There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences..
As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I'm convinced it's not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old boys become obsessed with Egypt. ….
You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. A….
I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything abo….
The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century..
It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me..
Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white..
I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and dusk, it's a diff….
When you go to a great concert something that happens is there is a deep sense of communality and connectedness one to another - as though we are all….
When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with….
Meaning coming from feeling, feeling coming from within, you absorb a massive amount of information, it goes through your whole body, a little bit of….