I was flying planes before I was driving cars. I started gliding when I was fourteen, about when I started photographing. I was a geeky kid, and the ….

I've always been amazed at the vastness of America itself and what it does and how it does it. I'm interested in the mechanics of what makes this cou….

I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures..

Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result..

I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera, a ….

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to e….

I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because….

We have not only the right, but a specific duty, to honestly and unflinchingly look at all aspects of our world, both the one we create as humans and….

I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because ther….

I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a ted….

I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be us. It's not that we're m….

Once one crosses a conceptual threshold of rethinking what nature might or might not be, it can multiply outward radically. The world becomes a more ….

Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America..

I am a photographer who likes to make images, but I also want to get a sense and understanding of images that have already been made. I don't fabrica….

The pilot says, "Where do you want to go?" and that's always a rather existential question, because naturally I think a bit about where I want to go,….

The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up - it's actually a kind of l….

I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye view, which….

Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated ….

... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth..

When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly….

What better way to actually deal with L.A. than to get above it and engage with the horizontality and scale of the basin itself?.