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

There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily and each picture is better than the next, and then you sort of level off and that's when you realize that it's not that each picture is better then the next, it's that each picture up's the ante. And that every time you take one good picture, the next one has got to be better.

I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.

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.

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

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.

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