A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.