Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.

There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.