The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

I didn't have to be friends with people who were into pop music.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.

You find the people that you need to find. There's this gravitational pull.

Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.