In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

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.

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to events long before, and I still am.

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

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.