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.

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

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

You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.

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.

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