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

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

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

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.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.