I was shooting lots of large format portraits then but I've since changed to digital, where you have so much more control. There are millions of things you can do with digital; you can be more spontaneous, and you're more in control of your color palette.

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

Digital held no romance for me at all. I hated it. I miss my big cameras. The working process, I miss it.

I never do pictures that I've done before - but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.

The picture I was hoping for is never the picture I get, but yeah, I think they fail all the time. Fortunately my clients don't think they do, so I can continue to have a career. But I just look at them and think.

People aren't hiring just a picture, they're hiring someone they can work with. That plays a big role .

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.