Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

I don’t work as a conceptualist. Let’s say the conceptual art model is that you have a project idea, or a set of concerns, and then you illustrate those concerns in whatever manner you see appropriate. For me, it has always been that the world suggests far more subtle and interesting variations than I could ever come up with.

You could start a small fire... with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine.

You can do anything you like, it's all fiction.