Just As Renaissance Artists Provided Narratives For

I Was Always Painting When I Was A Kid. But Then When I Handled A Camera When I Was 17, That Was It For Me. I Loved Photography. I Would Work 4 Or 5 Hours A Day. It Was Like A Calling.

People Will Get Tired Of Overly Retouched Images Soon And They'll Want Something Different. If People Have Too Much Reality, They Want Fantasy. What Matters Most Is What The Image Communicates. I Remember The First Roll Of Film I Shot At High School, The Contact Sheet Went From These Really Worthy Images Of Cracks In The Wall And Ended Up With All Of My Dancer Friends Naked In Renaissance Poses.

I Wanted It To Provide An Escape Route, I Wanted To Make Pictures That Were Fantastic And Took You Into Another World, One That Was Brighter. I Started Off With This Idea.

There's Nothing That Symbolizes Loss Or Grief More Than A Mother Losing A Child.

There Are Going To Be People Doing The Talking And People Who Get Talked About, Choose, Which One Do You Want To Be?