Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.

I generally deal with something happening.

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

I'm a good craftsman and I can have this particular intention: let's say, I want a photograph that's going to push a certain button in an audience, to make them laugh or love, feel warm or hate or what - I know how to do this.