Gerard Malanga

Whether it's a poem I'm working on or a picture I've snapped, it all has to do with the curiosity I feel without thinking about it. ”

New York City has changed enormously. My gut impression of it now is that it's like being in a sci-fi novel: 'Blade Runner' syndrome. Nothing seems real anymore; everything is pre-packaged. ”

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography. ”

All that I've done in my life thus far, all the poems and all the pictures, are not so much an intermingling of my life with art but a divine accident. ”

As a photographer, I don't really have a view of the world in general. Someone taking pictures for 'National Geographic' might. Each of us works to our full capacity when we're in the midst of a shoot. Each of us finds our own level of intensity, and that's the fun of it. ”

Be happy in what you do. Be respectful of yourself. Do good works for others, and the goodness will come back to you and make you a better person. I think that's what happiness is all about. ”

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me. ”

I always had the feeling, even when I started, that my photography was meant to be archival in nature. Sort of like wine, I guess - they get better with age. ”