I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

It's important to let your subjects be themselves.

I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.