I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.

In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is some terrible or great moment, we remember the stills.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

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.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.