When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.

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.

I'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.

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.

The career has to support the making and can offer a platform, can offer you a voice in the world. And that's an incredible thing. But it's complicated and seductive and weird and tricky. I think you have to keep figuring that out your whole life.

I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.

I was really poor for most of my adult life.