I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.

The weirdest thing to me is that magazines would never do this for their writers. They would never hire a writer who writes for another magazine; they want to have their own stable of writers. Newsweek would never hire a TIME writer, and TIME would never hire a Newsweek writer - but they would both hire the same photographer to shoot a cover for them.

To me, style is like your fingerprint. Nobody else has it.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything.

Magazines don't have enough confidence to have their own style, so they use a borrowed style. That is shocking to me, but your perception is very accurate. It's a way to be more commercially viable, but to me, that's not having a style, that's having a schtick.

I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.