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

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.

I hate to say it because I think people are risk averse these days more than ever. Before they even pick up the phone, they know what the picture's going to be. So there's a certain comfort in that, a certain security that they can lay out the cover of the magazine and kind of know what it's going to be.

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

Shoot what you can't help but shoot

I'm an artist in residence, I've still been able to accept commercial jobs, and what I'll do is I'll make little videos on the side that I then bring back to the school and show the students the next day.