When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.