Photo Quotes

Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.

The things you don’t show can say more than the things that are made visible.

Good portraits fail. They fail depending on, of course, what you're trying to express or see, but they fail because they show you exactly what famous people look like, or anybody looks like. A line, line, like a duplication even. People have made big careers out of simply photographing people under the same light, ad nauseam. I don't care what somebody's face looks like, but I care about who they are, what they represent, their energy. How do you express that? I have no idea.

I think when you take a photograph, if it turns out to be something good, there's a kind of Zen element that takes place. It's difficult to describe. People talk of controlling, but it's not true. You can't control the swirl of reality. If you're very lucky, from time to time, you do something that is good.

Whatever complexity people find in the work that I do, must be there, because they find it. I have not set out to be complex.