...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.

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

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

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

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.

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

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.