I've been taking pictures since I was probably 16. I'm 54, and I can't believe how excited I am.

Something about photography is tied to a very specific relationship with the material world. It doesn't have to be, but the way I practice it, it is. So there's an act of observation, but it's not an act of objective recording. It's about framing something and seeing it and understanding that it's relational.

By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world.

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.

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.

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

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.