For me, my faith informs my life.
Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something. . . was somewhere and took a picture.
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet. . . the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.
Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.
How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships?. . . How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?
I don't have to believe in Feng Shui, I do it because it makes me money.
I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?
Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.