I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it's sort of a magpie aesthetic - I just go and pick up whatever is around. If you think about it, the children were there, so I took pictures of my children. It's not that I'm interested in children that much or photographing them - it's just that they were there.

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

The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.

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.