Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.

You never know who will see your images hanging. And I like that. I think you never really have control over the things that you do.

In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this. It's what Emily would have wanted.

I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.

I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don't decide the title, you don't decide the size, the order of the photographs . . . so it's completely out of control!

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.