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.

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

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

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

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

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.