And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

One man's fantasy is another man's job.

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.

I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.