One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

The big idea behind it was to somehow participate in the discussion about justice. What does it mean to be just to the others out there whose lives we do not think about. One of the answers I came up with was simply tell their stories.

It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about a new kind of American reality, one that takes diversity for granted. It doesn't celebrate diversity, actually, it just says: this is how we live now.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.