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

I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen backdrops, but it's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary.

The earth doesn’t care where death occurs. ...It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking a photograph of it, that makes the earth powerful and creates death’s memory. Because the land will not remember by itself, but the artist will.

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

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

There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.