I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.