“A great deal of art making–process–is about subliminal desire. The hardest thing for aspiring creative people is to learn to trust that kind of feeling, that longing, that instinct, because they are surrounded by ‘who cares about that?’, ‘that’s been done before’ and ‘what is the point of that?’ An artist has to believe in his own sense and experience of wonder. Life is too precious to simply adopt other people’s concerns.”

- Richard Rothmans

My influences continually evolve, currently looking at Ralph Gibson, Saul Leiter, Fan Ho.

Others whose photographs I like: Lee Friedlander, Alan Schaller, Sebastiao Salgado, Sam Abell, David Alan Harvey, Costa Manos, Alex Webb, Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, Robert Polidori, Petros Koublis, Yaakov Israel.