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

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

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

When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.

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

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.