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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.

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I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.

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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

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Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.

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I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.

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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

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I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.

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I couldn't deal with a normal life.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: Unknown

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