I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.

You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.

Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the thing is being made. But the gap between what we recognize inside ourselves - our feelings- and our ability to trust ourselves and to trust exposing ourselves to those ideas, can be great.

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.