I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.
I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.
I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
I don't think it matters where I came from any more.
I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.
There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.
All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
