I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.

I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

Someone once said: "We do not make friends, we recognize them." And you'll know who they are because they play according to the same rules that you do.

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships. I am so lucky to be on the little golden path that led me to all this.

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television.