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

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.

The last thing people want is a surprise, these days.

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.

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

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.

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