Occupation: Photographer Birth: December 1, 1949
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time..
I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in fact looking for. Perhaps the best ….
... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me t….
I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas..
One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of ….
The one thing that seems to be consistent through all my work that I like, and I experimented a lot, is the viewer is allowed to meditate on somethin….
People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical….
The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws ev….
I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the ….
To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation ….
The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes .….
In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of f….
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read..
I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird..