Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose.

I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.

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

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing eyesight. We have binocular vision; one eye perceives space from the other. I don't experience a scene visually at F32. It's more like F1.4.

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