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.

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.

My only interest in photographing is photography.