If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.

Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

I have no expectations. None at all.

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.

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.