In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

When you go searching, you never know what you will find.

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

Life on the planet and in our galaxy is so complex, I don't hope to have any substantial effect in it, but if I can touch a few people deep in their psyche, by making my personal subjective journey concrete for others, then I am very happy.

My best Pictures are the ones I don’t understand.

Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.