A Photographic Portrait Is A

When You Pose For A Photograph, It's Behind A Smile That Isn't Yours. You Are Angry And Hungry And Alive. What I Value In You Is That Intensity. I Want To Make Portraits As Intense As People.

People, Unprotected By Their Roles, Become Isolated In Beauty And Intellect And Illness And Confusion.

I Know That The Accident Of My Being A Photographer Has Made My Life Possible.

Faces Are The Ledgers Of Our Experience.

Photography Has Always Reminded Me Of The Second Child.. Trying To Prove Itself. The Fact That It Wasn't Really Considered An Art.. That It Was Considered A Craft.. Has Trapped Almost Every Serious Photographer.