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

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

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

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

Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to the world, it's an interpretation. I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame. You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. There's an infinite number of ways you can do this: photographs have always been authored.

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.