I was flying planes before I was driving cars. I started gliding when I was fourteen, about when I started photographing. I was a geeky kid, and the camera was a way in high school for me to have some… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America. — Michael Light Copy Share
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
Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result. — Michael Light Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
