I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.
Ari MarcopoulosDates can be important. It's a nice way to remember when I took the photo without having to rack my brain or look in the archives. It also makes every photo important, because there is the date. I can take a picture of nothing, but at least we know when I took it.
Ari MarcopoulosMy photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
Ari MarcopoulosAs my sons went into teenagehood, they started to look like some of the groups of people that I had photographed previously. They started to become like my old subjects. As if, as a photographer, you come around to the same visual points.
Ari Marcopoulos