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When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies ... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.
I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.
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.
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 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 singular identity. I think a singular identity isn't very interesting, and I'm a little bit more multifaceted as a person than that.
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.
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 kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.
I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.
