Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me