Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every id….
I lived and languished..
Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a lit….
Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's….
Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are..
There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how….
Words will be just words till you bring them to life.
When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of wh….
Kids and cameras are a big things with me. Find a kid who digs cameras and share one simple photo tip with her..
I am occasionally loveable but for the most part I’m like loving a raincloud..
Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of min….
The simpler things are, the happier they are..
Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier..
The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets..
For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place... [Photogr….
Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything.
My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing..
3-D movies can make me nauseous..
I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance..
Because love, love never finishes..
The more equipment you shlep around the less you will enjoy the equipment you shlep around..