Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to one. It is just ridiculou….

The career has to support the making and can offer a platform, can offer you a voice in the world. And that's an incredible thing. But it's complicat….

I've been taking pictures since I was probably 16. I'm 54, and I can't believe how excited I am..

I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard..

I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound ….

By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world..

Something about photography is tied to a very specific relationship with the material world. It doesn't have to be, but the way I practice it, it is.….

The world feels overwhelming to me on every level. Just the number of organisms that live on this planet. Our politics, our violence, psychology, emo….

What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human beings have d….

If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart..

When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view..

There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the pres….

I'd grown up poor; I had no idea what it was like to be comfortable..

I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me..

I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure..

You need to have your eyes open because it's really scary what's happening..

We're all busy. It's a very fast-paced world. And art - and by that, I mean culture in a wider sense - is one of the few spaces where we're allowed t….

Making work for me is being in the world, but it's also being specific about being in the world. I'm interested in this increasingly rare space of co….

Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing..

What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you..

I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work..