Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.

I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.