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.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

What I'm good at is making art.

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

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