“Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.”

“Anyone can take a picture of poverty; its easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. Its much harderand much more needfulto pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity of people that...”

“You are responsible for every element within the frame.”

“As long as were alive and interacting with life, the world, and the people around us, well have something to say.”

“A photograph can communicate a couple things and sometimes only one thingvery well. The more you try to say with your photograph, the greater the chance that you will say nothing at all.”

“The clich comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.”

“Successful people play the part of being successful consistently in all that they do.”

“People frequently point to communication as a problem, because its easy to notice, but usually it is a symptom of an underlying problem with a relationship posture.”

“It takes two to have a fight.”

“Mediante la fotografa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicin fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusin de mi pasado.”

“Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ”

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another persons (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, a...”

“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.”

“When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and the...”