I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.

When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.

Everybody's entitled to their own experience.

I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.

Nobody exists in a vacuum.

When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."

At times I'd much rather talk about other work.