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"It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and a quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy in the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs. "

I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.

I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.

Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

The camera is the least important element in photography.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

I have a lot of confidence in my shot and I'm willing to shoot it no matter what.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.