It's not a question of getting the opportunities, it's a question of noticing that opportunities are there.

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.

Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.

Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.