I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.

Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an interference pattern with the image. Who he is, what he believes, not only becomes important to know intellectually, but also becomes revealed emotionally and visibly through a body of work.

I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus.

I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .