After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only way we're going to survive. And now it's like we're undoing these very fragile institutions that were built after the First and Second World Wars that were about nations working on a kind of global diplomacy for our mutual benefit. And we're undoing them at such rapid-fire pace.

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 in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.

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

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.

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in 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.