You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.

Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.

In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is really just a natural evolution. The irony is that none of the processes that have been replaced have disappeared. More people than ever are practicing every approach to shooting and printing.

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.