I'm Very Little Drawn To

The Condition Of Photographing Is Maybe The Condition Of Being On The Brink Of Conversion To Anything.

I Used To Have This Notion When I Was A Kid That The Minute You Said Anything, It Was No Longer True. Of Course It Would Have Driven Me Crazy Very Rapidly If I Hadn't Dropped It, But There's Something Similar In What I'm Trying To Say. That Once It's Been Done, You Want To Go Someplace Else. There's Just Some Sense Of Straining.

What I'm Trying To Describe Is That It's Impossible To Get Out Of Your Skin Into Somebody Else's.... That Somebody Else's Tragedy Is Not The Same As Your Own.

Freaks Was A Thing I Photographed A Lot. It Was One Of The First Things I Photographed And It Had A Terrific Kind Of Excitement For Me. I Just Used To Adore Them. I Still Do Adore Some Of Them. I Don't Quite Mean They're My Best Friends But They Made Me Feel A Mixture Of Shame And Awe.

If You Scrutinize Reality Closely Enough, If In Some Way You Really, Really Get To It, It Becomes Fantastic.