People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could just work with my eyes alone. To get a satisfactory print, one that contains all that you intended, is very often more difficult and dangerous than the sitting itself. When I’m photographing, I immediately know when I’ve got the image I really want. But to get the image out of the camera and into the open, is another matter.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

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.

Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

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