Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

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.