Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are.
If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty.
As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.
To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.
I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter
I have learned to consciously avoid letting that thought, It's been done, enter my creative process. You have to try not to edit yourself before you actually shoot.
I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.
There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.
[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you. ' That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.
Everything that enters our field of perception means something, large or small. Everything speaks to us, if we will take off our headphones and hear a different sound track. Everything corresponds. We travel better in the forest of symbols when we are open and available to all the forms of meaning that are watching†and waiting for us.