My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.