Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.

When I’m photographing I see life.

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.

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

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.

Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.