What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human beings have documented the world in an attempt to order it, in an attempt to consume it or rule it or hang on to it in some sense.

Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.

I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound believable. It just sounds like you're lying. And I see it on the faces of my younger friends.

There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.

I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out.

I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.

Making work for me is being in the world, but it's also being specific about being in the world. I'm interested in this increasingly rare space of contemplation and taking the time and energy to be thoughtful.