“The ideas for my photographs come from things that I see, from a preconscious kind of seeing, and then I go back and try to assemble what l’ve seen. But whenever I try to come up with the image completely from inside myself, it never seems to work. It always needs to be triggered by something that I see. There is a sort of marriage between intellect and human response.” James Sandall, Professor of Photography, Eastern Michigan University, Interview by Lou Hillman, Agenda, October 1997