As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures, telling our brief story.

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

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

Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no matter how hard-earned, allows me only a crumbling foothold on this steepening climb—an ascent whose milestones are fear and doubt.

You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.

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.

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