I Work With Pictures And Words Because

I Think I Developed Language Skills To Deal With Threat. It's The Girl Thing To Do-you Know, Instead Of Pulling Out A Gun.

I Think That The Exactitude Of The Photograph Has A Sort Of Compelling Nature Based In Its Power To Duplicate Life. But To Me The Real Power Of Photography Is Based In Death: The Fact That Somehow It Can Enliven That Which Is Not There In A Kind Of Stultifying Frightened Way, Because It Seems To Me That Part Of One's Life Is Made Up Of A Constant Confrontation With One's Own Death.

I Have Problems With A Lot Of Photography, Particularly Street Photography And Photojournalism - Objectifying The Other, Finding The Contempt And Exoticism That You Might Feel Within Yourself Or Toward Yourself And Projecting It Out To Others. There Can Be An Abusive Power To Photography, Too.

I Want People To Be Drawn Into The Space Of The Work. And A Lot Of People Are Like Me In That They Have Relatively Short Attention Spans. So I Shoot For The Window Of Opportunity.

I'm Trying To Deal With Ideas About Histories, Fame, Hearsay, And How Public Identities Are Constructed.