I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.

I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.