From "Venice, March 2010"

A city is where people gather. The streets, buildings, sites and sights are only background. When I photograph there is a paradox in what I look for - people that are unique to me (and isn't everyone?), and yet universal somehow. The mystery of photography is evident whenever a resulting image, which I know is derived from reality (I was there!), becomes something totally fictional for me through a process I do not understand.