"It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it."
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"I like photographers-you don't ask questions."
"Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera."
"Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?"
"I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that."
"There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work."
"To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography."
"I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself."
"Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work."
"The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me."
"I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing."
"Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it."