The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

Our best pictures happen by grace.

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.

Worry is a sin because we are taking our eyes off of Christ and His ability to handle a situation. And when we do this, we are no longer able to live a life of faith.

Prayer does work sometimes, but hard work always works.

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

In pain a new time is born.

People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.

There's a guy chasing me!" I called as I headed out the door.