Photography Was A License To Go Wherever

Freaks Was A Thing I Photographed A Lot. It Was One Of The First Things I Photographed And It Had A Terrific Kind Of Excitement For Me. I Just Used To Adore Them. I Still Do Adore Some Of Them. I Don't Quite Mean They're My Best Friends But They Made Me Feel A Mixture Of Shame And Awe.

We've All Got An Identity. You Can't Avoid It. It's What's Left When You Take Everything Else Away.

What Moves Me About...what's Called Technique...is That It Comes From Some Mysterious Deep Place. I Mean It Can Have Something To Do With The Paper And The Developer And All That Stuff, But It Comes Mostly From Some Very Deep Choices Somebody Has Made That Take A Long Time And Keep Haunting Them.

If The Fall Of Man Consists In The Separation Of God And The Devil The Serpent Must Have Appeared Out Of The Middle Of The Apple When Eve Bit Like The Original Worm In It, Splitting It In Half And Sundering Everything Which Was Once One Into A Pair Of Opposites, So The World Is Noah's Ark On The Sea Of Eternity Containing All The Endless Pairs Of Things, Irreconcilable And Inseparable, And Heat Will Always Long For Cold And The Back For The Front And Smiles For Tears And Mutt For Jeff And No For Yes With The Most Unutterable Nostalgia There Is.

There's A Kind Of Power Thing About The Camera. I Mean Everyone Knows You've Got Some Edge. You're Carrying Some Magic Which Does Something To Them. It Fixes Them In A Way.