The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - thats what I deeply loved.

No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies.

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.