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

I'll finish a body of work and think, "Okay, I got nothing. That was it. I'm done." And then you'll turn a corner and be like, "Oh my God!" And it keeps happening. I feel so lucky.

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.

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

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 was really poor for most of my adult life.