I'd grown up poor; I had no idea what it was like to be comfortable.

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 world feels overwhelming to me on every level. Just the number of organisms that live on this planet. Our politics, our violence, psychology, emotions; there's just a lot going on, right?

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.

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.

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