In The West, People Tend

Most Portraits Are Lies. People Are Rarely What They Appear To Be, Especially In Front Of A Camera. You Might Know Me Your Entire Lifetime And Never Reveal Yourself To Me. To Interpret Wrinkles As Character Is Insult Not Insight.

Photography Is Essentially An Act Of Recognition By Street Photographers, Not An Act Of Invention. Photographers Might Respond To An Old Man’s Face, Or An Arbus Freak, Or The Way Light Hits A Building—and Then They Move On. Whereas In All The Other Art Forms, Take William Blake, Everything That Came To That Paper Never Existed Before. It’s The Idea Of Alchemy, Of Making Something From Nothing.

All Good Work Has Magic In It, And Addresses The Mind In A Subtle Way.

I Believe In The Imagination. What I Cannot See Is Infinitely More Important Than What I Can See.

Trust That Little Voice In Your Head That Says 'wouldn't It Be Interesting If...'; And Then Do It.