I'm More Interested In Being Good Than

There Are Still So Many Places On Our Planet That Remain Unexplored. I'd Love To One Day Peel Back The Mystery And Understand Them.

I Think Self-portraits Are Very Difficult. I’ve Always Seen Mine As Straightforward, Very Stripped Down, Hair Pulled Back. No Shirt. Whatever Light Happened To Be Available. I’d Want It To Be Very Graphic – About Darkness And Light. No One Else Should Be There, But I’m Scared To Do It By Myself. I’ve Been Thinking About It For A Long Time. The Whole Idea Of A Self-portrait Is Strange. I’m So Strongly Linked To How I See Through The Camera That To Get To The Other Side Of It Would Be Difficult. It Would Be As If I Were Taking A Photograph In The Dark.

Things Happen In Front Of You. That's Perhaps The Most Wonderful And Mysterious Aspect Of Photography.

I'm Pretty Used To People Not Liking Having Their Picture Taken. I Mean, If You Do Like To Have Your Picture Taken, I Worry About You.

I’ve Said About A Million Times That The Best Thing A Young Photographer Can Do Is To Stay Close To Home. Start With Your Friends And Family, The People Who Will Put Up With You. Discover What It Means To Be Close To Your Work, To Be Intimate With A Subject. Measure The Difference Between That And Working With Someone You Don't Know As Much About. Of Course There Are Many Good Photographs That Have Nothing To Do With Staying Close To Home, And I Guess What I'm Really Saying Is That You Should Take Pictures Of Something That Has Meaning For You