The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century.

It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.

When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it's a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you.

You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture.