What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

We all strive to find moments of clarity, of order.

My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes together and there is that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my life makes sense.

I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

All my pictures are very voyeuristic, but ultimately I'm looking at what lurks in my own interior. I make photographs because I want to answer the question of what propels me to do the things that I do. But that always remains a mystery.