We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!
When you go searching, you never know what you will find.
Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive. . . Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality.
Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.
The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche. . . It's a hard place to get to, honestly. It has taken me many years to get to that place and to define it visually.
Life on the planet and in our galaxy is so complex, I don't hope to have any substantial effect in it, but if I can touch a few people deep in their psyche, by making my personal subjective journey concrete for others, then I am very happy.
It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.
The Christian ethic did not raise the worth of female life much above the Jewish: nor did the clinical ethic raise it much above the clerical. This is why most of those identified as witches by male inquisitors were women; and why most of those diagnosed as hysterics by male psychiatrists were also women.
Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs
Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.