A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

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