There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is "charming." Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

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.

You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.