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The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.
I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.
I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave a rainbow flag proudly, but I am not a... →
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and... →
I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'
I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.
Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing... →
I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.