A Photographic Portrait Is A

All Photographs Are Accurate. None Of Them Is The Truth.

You Can't Get At The Thing Itself, The Real Nature Of The Sitter, By Stripping Away The Surface. You Can Only Get Beyond The Surface By Working With The Surface. All That You Can Do Is Manipulate That Surface - Gesture, Costume, Expression - Radically And Correctly.

Real People Move, They Bear With Them The Element Of Time. It Is This Fourth Dimension Of People That I Try To Capture In A Photograph.

I Think All Art Is About Control, The Encounter Between Control And Uncontrollable.

We All Perform. It's What We Do For Each Other All The Time, Deliberately Or Unintionally. It's A Way Of Telling About Ourselves In The Hope Of Being Recognized As What We'd Like To Be.--performance