I Still Go To Church Occasionally. I

I Didn’t See Any Difference Between Being A Photographer Or Being An Artist. I Didn’t Make Those Boundaries. If Someone Wants To Think It’s Art, That’s Great, But I’ll Let History Decide.

We Are In This Time Of Corporations Being So Greedy And Global. Some People Want To Call It The Apocalypse. When I Was Born It Was Half The People On The Planet. It Has Doubled In My Life Time. This Is Not Sustainable For The Earth; Of Course We Are Going Somewhere. So We Have To Live Preciously, We Have To Live Each Day With Care!

My Idea Was That If I Took A Picture Of Somebody And Years Later, Or Whenever, They Would Die And If Someone Wanted To Know Who This Person Was, They Could Take One Of These Pictures And It Would Tell Who The Person Was.

I Had This Duality Growing Up With My Dad Being A Strict Catholic And His Brother Being A Priest And My Mother Finding God In Nature, So I've Taken A Little From Both [traditions].

I Was Working In This Very Bombastic Style. I Didn't Really Know About Style. I Didn't Think About It: I Did What I Was Interested In, What I Was Attracted To, What I Was Drawn To. I Was Drawn To Color, And I Was Drawn To Humor, And I Was Drawn To Sexuality And Spontaneity. It Was All Really Intuitive. I Never Really Thought, "well This Is The Style...