The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave a rainbow flag proudly, but I am not a singular identity. I think a singular identity isn't very interesting, and I'm a little bit more multifaceted as a person than that.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.