[The Middle East conflict ] just kind of ran its course for me. For a long time I could justify doing it to myself, no matter how irrational it was. ….

I began to explore America in more general terms. I really started this work in 2009. I got the bulk of it done as I was easing out of Disco Night..

I realized how little I knew about my own country. I had grown up in the suburbs and, after college, I moved out of the country, so I didn't really k….

At first Disco Night wasn't meant to be a book, although I'm always thinking about that in the back of my mind. It started off as a series of explora….

It was sometimes provoked by assignments, then I'd go back on my own dime if I really clicked with a place. And sometimes it was just hanging out wit….

You find [reverberations from 9/11 ] in them most unexpected places, like graffiti on a wall. Sometimes it's a faded picture; sometimes it's a newspa….

What I was doing for those assignments wasn't always directly tied to what I was doing for myself, but it gave me the space to photograph. I started ….

I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who are getting b….

I kept shooting but started making drafts of the work, essentially spending a few days a month sequencing and editing, hanging things up on the board….

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history of w….

Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time." I'd heard a small part of it in a play, a sort of sci-fi play about mora….

That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in America] as ….

I went out to cover the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan fundamentally [in Buzzing at the Sill] because I was interested in war as a notion and in experi….

The big question that everyone is asking themselves, or what they should be asking themselves right now, is what role has the media played in not jus….

Even though most people were disconnected from [travel ban], the moment amplified a fairly massive and somewhat irrational fear that exists in the po….

[Buzzing at the Sill] deals with the margins of America, a lot of parts unseen. Well, parts that are seen and familiar to a lot of the populace, but ….

I read the poem [In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke] because I was intrigued and had one of those strange senses: "This poem is kind of important to ….

I think a lot of the work I've done and a lot of the work I'm going to do in the future still ties to 9/11 and the fallout from it..

I am still covering conflict to some degree. I was back in Iraq. I've covered quite a bit of the Israel and Palestine. But I'm not doing it with the ….

The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11..

I'm a constant editor. Every few months or so I make a ton of 4x6 prints. I put them on a magnetic board and I live with them for a while to see what….