This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're revealing.

I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.

I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but the camera always reveals something more vulnerable, despite our best efforts.

This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're revealing.

There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.