He Sleeps Fastest Who Sleeps Alone.

Start With A Style And You Are In Chains, Start With An Idea And You Are Free.

I've Worked Out Of A Series Of No's. No To Exquisite Light, No To Apparent Compositions, No To The Seduction Of Poses Or Narrative. And All These No's Force Me To The Yes. I Have A White Background. I Have The Person I'm Interested In And The Thing That Happens Between Us.

I Never Wanted To Be Called An Artist. I Wanted To Be Called A Photographer.

Camera Lies All The Time. It’s All It Does Is Lie, Because When You Choose This Moment Instead Of This Moment, When You… The Moment You’ve Made A Choice, You’re Lying About Something Larger. Lying Is An Ugly Word. I Don’t Mean Lying. But Any Artist Picks And Chooses What They Want To Paint Or Write About Or Say. Photographers Are The Same.

The Moment An Emotion Or Fact Is Transformed Into A Photograph It Is No Longer A Fact But An Opinion.