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

Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to one. It is just ridiculous. But sometimes if you can hit it just right and get everything out of the way, something will resonate on multiple levels.

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

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.

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.

We're all busy. It's a very fast-paced world. And art - and by that, I mean culture in a wider sense - is one of the few spaces where we're allowed to look and think without an immediate response or reaction.

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.