Most Portraits Are Lies. People Are Rarely

I Believe In The Invisible. I Do Not Believe In The Definitive Reality Of Things Around Us. For Me, Reality Is The Intuition And The Imagination And The Quiet Voice Inside My Head That Says: Isn't That Extraordinary? The Things In Our Lives Are The Shadows Of Reality, Just As We Ourselves Are Shadows.

Art Has To Address Eternal Issues.

Photographers Tend Not To Photograph What They Can’t See, Which Is The Very Reason One Should Try To Attempt It. Otherwise We’re Going To Go On Forever Just Photographing More Faces And More Rooms And More Places. Photography Has To Transcend Description. It Has To Go Beyond Description To Bring Insight Into The Subject, Or Reveal The Subject, Not As It Looks, But How Does It Feel?

I Write In Order To Express What The Photo Itself Cannot Say. A Photograph Of My Father Doesn't Tell Me What I Thought Of Him, Which For Me Is Much More Important Than What The Man Looked Like.

And In Not Learning The Rules, I Was Free. I Always Say, You're Either Defined By The Medium Or You Redefine The Medium In Terms Of Your Needs.