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.

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

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

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t 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.

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

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