Rabelle, New York 1989

With these photographs, My motivations are simple and I communicate that to my subject so as to gain the trust that is essential to the image.  I believe that my subjects are important and they know that.  Also, I know that most people are curious about how they seem to another person.  A photograph can document that and satisfy the question, 'what do I look like to one who doesn't know me, but likes the way I look?' –Artist statement