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.

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.

If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.

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.

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

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.