America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way.
There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.
I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.
Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.
The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.
It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.
[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.
The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.
And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat. , Dulcique animos novitate tenebo. ]
I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams, not (Lou) Gehrig, not (Joe) DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillacs and I'm a Chevrolet.
Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!