Conversations : Saint Lucy

I have always been a voyeur, and find the very act of looking pleasurable.

Photography is a way to connect. If the image doesn’t connect, it is because I failed.

In my life I associate photography much more with poetry and music.

I am interested in stories from the inside. I wanted to open up the discussion.

There was a kind of bohemia in the East Village then, like Paris in the 1920s, you could live meagerly yet have an exciting life.

The idea of the amateur is something that runs through all of my work.

The challenge was to present a general idea about violence without context or emotional involvement.

The reason I got into photography was that I wanted to enjoy doing it; I sought pleasure in the process.

I have always looked for ways to work in the present, to have a real physical relationship to my material.