The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.