But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.