For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

I didn't want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It's just not what I am. I'm a photographer and I make prints. And people buy a print, and I understand that. But I'm uncomfortable with buying an experience.

I'm like the annoying guy in the street.

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was a primary motivation.

I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.