I've always been amazed at the vastness of America itself and what it does and how it does it. I'm interested in the mechanics of what makes this country happen, the power structures, the natural splendor. — Michael Light Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
The pilot says, "Where do you want to go?" and that's always a rather existential question, because naturally I think a bit about where… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
I am a photographer who likes to make images, but I also want to get a sense and understanding of images that have already… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures. — Michael Light Copy Share Image
Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America. — Michael Light Copy Share Image
I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result. — Michael Light Copy Share Image
Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera, a military… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
What better way to actually deal with L.A. than to get above it and engage with the horizontality and scale of the basin itself? — Michael Light Copy Share Image
We have not only the right, but a specific duty, to honestly and unflinchingly look at all aspects of our world, both the one… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture,… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
Once one crosses a conceptual threshold of rethinking what nature might or might not be, it can multiply outward radically. The world becomes a… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
