I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me.

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.

What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.

There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.

I was really poor for most of my adult life.

There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.

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.