I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them down, if you don’t make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.

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

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.

Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'

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

Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the thing is being made. But the gap between what we recognize inside ourselves - our feelings- and our ability to trust ourselves and to trust exposing ourselves to those ideas, can be great.

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