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The Emphasis In Doing Any In-depth Photography Is On Building Relationships, Quality Relationships. It's What I Call Thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame Photography. You Need To Enter Into The Community - Not Just Photographically, But Intellectually And Emotionally.

On A Lazy Saturday Morning When You're Lying In Bed, Drifting In And Out Of Sleep, There Is A Space Where Fantasy And Reality Become One. Are You Awake, Or Are You Dreaming? You See People And Things; Some Are Familiar; Some Are Strange. You Talk, You Feel, But You Move Without Walking; You Fly Without Wings. Your Mind And Your Body Exist, But On Separate Planes. Time Stands Still. For Me, This Is The Feeling I Have When Ideas Come.

If I Was In Love With Someone, I Would Get Their Picture Out Of The School Yearbook And Do Portraits. If I Was Curious About Sex, I Would Draw Pictures Of It. There Were No Books For Me To Look At. Then I Would Go Find My Father's Matches To Burn The Paper.

The Most Profound Statements Are Often Said In Silence.

Photographs Help People Look At Things They May Not Be Able Or May Not Want To Look At. Until You Can Look At Something, You Can't Change It. First You Have To Look At It, Then You Have A Chance To Understand It And Can Change It.