Listen: Our Culture Is Saturated With Irony

It's Hard For Me To Understand How Working-class People Support Themselves.

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.

It Entered The Visual Vocabulary Of Photographers, Painters And Sculptors And Focused On What Pictures And Words Look Like And What They Can Mean.

I Think What I'm Trying To Do Is Create Moments Of Recognition. To Try To Detonate Some Kind Of Feeling Or Understanding Of Lived Experience.

I Think People Have To Set Up Little Battles. They Have To Demonize People Whom They Disagree With Or Feel Threatened By. But It's The Ideological Framing Of The Debate That Scares Me.