The crunch of the crostini, the slitheriness of the penne alla vodka – a question preoccupying philosophers is where these personal experiences … [of] qualia, the raw, subjective sense we have of colors, sounds, tastes, touches and smells … fit within a purely physical theory of the mind.

And because I brought a critical approach to thinking about photography, I was interested in what these photographs were – not as windows through which you would look at a life and a world, but as cultural artifacts in their own right.