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

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

I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects might be more accurate - or maybe even more accurate is objects.

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.

I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing so. Something always fails, there's always a problem, and photography fails in a certain sense... This is what drives you to the next picture.

I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.

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