I See Pictures Of Myself And I

The Way Someone Who's Being Photographed Presents Himself To The Camera, And The Effect Of The Photographer's Response On That Presence, Is What The Making Of A Portrait Is All About.

I've Worked Out Of A Series Of No's. No To Exquisite Light, No To Apparent Compositions, No To The Seduction Of Poses Or Narrative. And All These No's Force Me To The Yes. I Have A White Background. I Have The Person I'm Interested In And The Thing That Happens Between Us.

Photography Has Always Reminded Me Of The Second Child.. Trying To Prove Itself. The Fact That It Wasn't Really Considered An Art.. That It Was Considered A Craft.. Has Trapped Almost Every Serious Photographer.

A Portrait Is Not A Likeness. The Moment An Emotion Or Fact Is Transformed Into A Photograph It Is No Longer A Fact But An Opinion. There Is No Such Thing As Inaccuracy In A Photograph. All Photographs Are Accurate. None Of Them Is The Truth.

We All Perform. It's What We Do For Each Other All The Time, Deliberately Or Unintionally. It's A Way Of Telling About Ourselves In The Hope Of Being Recognized As What We'd Like To Be.--performance