I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures you will be glad to have.

Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.