I was a hired gun, more or less.

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.

There've been times it's been just impossible to find a negative or whatever. But I'm basically just a one man operation, and so things get messed up. I don't have a filing system that's worth very much.

You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.

If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.