Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the mes….

A photograph has edges the world does not..

The danger is that you can wind up doing tourist pictures. I want to see it fresh and see the little bits of everyday life that a native might take f….

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used..

I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. A….

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence with….

If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism..

I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out….

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it..

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph..

I do what feels natural, but I can't say I haven't thought about it..

With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. ….

There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward and it can be a natural landsca….

There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transfor….

I don't have to have a single point of emphasis in the picture. It can be complex, because it's so detailed that the viewer can take time and read it….

I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes me that this is very different ….

This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In photography, you start with the whole wo….

A work can do many things at once, and it doesn't have to be just about the world, it could also be about photography, it could be about perception, ….

To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something y….

Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly, but deal with content; be a formal….

I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content..