Photo Quotes

Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts....You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see.

Originally a poet, I often interweave text and photographs in my ten books and accompanying exhibitions. Taken together, my words and images explore the meeting places between landscape and interior states, in particular the geography of loss—both personal and environmental.

I believe that the most powerful photographs come from a fusion of content and form, subject matter and light, the concrete and the elusive.

Photography is 99% about failure, about wandering, about not knowing and making mistakes, and 1% about putting the camera to your eye and hoping that something will happen.

In my photographs, color is both a descriptive and an emotional, expressive element. At times, it's almost as if the color itself is the subject.