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.

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.

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

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

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

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