My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.
When I started shooting speed, amphetamine, when I was 15, almost 16, it actually calmed me down.
At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.
I've always been interested in people that you wouldn't see otherwise. If you look back at my books, photographs, and films-and since I'm doing this retrospective I've been forced to look back-the work is always about a small group of people who are somewhat isolated, and who you would never see if I didn't film or photograph them.
I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.
I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can. . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.
I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.
Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.
Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.
I rarely wear clothes when I'm home by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you've got to make sure the gardener's not coming that day.