For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - thats what I deeply loved.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies.

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.