Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

Photography threatens fantasy.

The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

The majority of my work is about preparation.

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

It's nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!

Humility means you're willing to give someone a bigger slice of the pie.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

People don't see hunger in front of them so they are not directly affected. What I am doing is connecting young people to the issue

I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.

What a difference one person can make!

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.