One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best. ….

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance..

To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. And I must do so with both ardor and cool apprai….

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best..

Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m creating my own life. I distrus….

There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily and each picture is better than the next….

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future.

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art..

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories..

As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be ou….

If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography - the mendacity of photography. It’s got to have some ….

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art..

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do..

The earth doesn’t care where death occurs. ...It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking a photograph of it, that ma….

Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the s….

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind..

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of ….

The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a sec….

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical ….

I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, be….

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles..