The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an idea of what a photograph would look like and then something would happen - a dog might lumber in and become a critical element. I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected.