I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'
The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.
I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.
Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.
Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.
What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.
If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.
To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.
I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.
As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.
It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However, I wanted to incorporate into the project as a whole the jostling of time-frames I would feel as I set up my tripod on various rocky promontories.
I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.
Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context and supplemental information to confirm our observations, not simply the documents themselves.
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.
Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.
How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?
Seeing creates growth.
My mantra is, 'This or something better.'
A good question has many answers.
The best plans evolve.
It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something.
Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.
We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?
Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.
The frame frames a frame of mind.
