For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

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.

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

We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.

It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall into where our feelings are headed while we're quite young. But the beauty of all this uncertainty would be that in the process of exhausting all the possibilities, we might actually stumble unconsciously into the recognition of something that's useful to us, that speaks to a deep need within ourselves. At the same time, I like to think that in order for any of us to really do anything new, we can't know exactly what it is we are doing.

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.