I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such a habit engenders risk, and you realise you're not as vulnerable as you thought. Once you become comfortable with being more truthful about who you are, the easier it is, the prouder you become. That's the way it unfolded for us.

You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a few. I did it as a reminder that you can't afford to waste time: take it seriously.