To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph. You’re flexing that right.

For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also changed. There was a new kind of politics to it - something that was very aggressive and dangerous - and a presumption that it would reveal some kind of truth or evidence.

Injustice drives me crazy! It really upsets me when I see politicians lying.

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.

The switch has been built. Maybe you trust Barack Obama not to throw that switch, and maybe you trust George Bush not to throw that switch, but as we look towards the future, we see inequality becoming more and more acute. We're seeing more and more protests against cops and this kind of thing. We're also seeing more and more natural disasters. We're seeing more and more environmental insecurity.

The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems. So there are many parallels between that: mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and militarism.