Do We Know What We Look Like?

Stare, Pry, Listen, Eavesdrop. Die Knowing Something. You Are Not Here Long.

The Photographs Are Not Illustrative. They, And The Text, Are Coequal, Mutually Independent, And Fully Collaborative. By Their Fewness, And By The Importance Of The Reader’s Eye, This Will Be Misunderstood By Most Of That Minority Which Does Not Wholly Ignore It. In The Interests, However, Of The History And Future Of Photography, That Risk Seems Irrelevant, And This Flat Statement Necessary.

I'm Sometimes Called A 'documentary Photographer' But... A Man Operating Under That Definition Could Take A Sly Pleasure In The Disguise. Very Often I'm Doing One Thing When I'm Thought To Be Doing Another.

I Say Half Jokingly That Photography Is The Most Difficult Of The Arts. It Does Require A Certain Arrogance To See And To Choose. I Feel Myself Walking On A Tightrope Instead Of On The Ground.

You See, A Document Has Use, Whereas Art Is Really Useless. Therefore Art Is Never A Document, Although It Can Adopt That Style.