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

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

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

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

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.

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.