This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.

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

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

This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.

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

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.