I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement.

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

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

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.