I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance..

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have ….

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body i….

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working..

I love the city. I love the energy of New York and what happens here. But I'm very happy I don't live in the city on a daily basis, because I really ….

Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernis….

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This….

Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my su….

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as….

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely..

You know, artists are influenced by other artists. We're all deeply influenced by what's around us; we don't make anything cold. Sometimes we think t….

How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way..

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but….

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camer….

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace..

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me.