I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.

I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.

I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.