You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and the way that things are placed and the way ….

The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire..

When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic design, you were all taking the sa….

I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms..

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography..

I'm just a photographer, not a movie star..

I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks..

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs..

I didn't have to be friends with people who were into pop music..

A lot of artists need structure..

I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven ….

Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them..

I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable ….

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth….

A lot of my close friends have committed suicide or died of heroin overdoses..

I really don't want to be part of just one group. I'm interested in doing everything - making music videos, shooting campaigns, having -gallery and m….

I got a lot of attention when I was really young, and people have it in their minds that I'm still 24 years old. So I made the decision that I had ph….

The camera gives you some control..

You find the people that you need to find. There's this gravitational pull..

My dad was in the Korean War. He got shot seven times. He had seven bullet holes in him. And out of his troop of 35 guys, he was one of nine guys tha….

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim.".