I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light. I cannot will this kind of transcendent communication into existence. I have to be open and truly present, and if I am lucky, grace descends. My best photographs are an honest collaboration, and when the viewer also connects, I feel the circle is complete.

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

Our best pictures happen by grace.

I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take a break, never eat. I'm focused on getting that moment of revelation, of insight, of poignancy, of meaning.

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.