It is tough being patient when you are more than a half million dollars in debt.

I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.

With the Internet, you can get lots of info in advance, but a local person who knows how to work the system is invaluable.

The fact that a thirteen-year-old project still resonates and can still have a large exhibit with lots of newspaper, magazine and TV press shows the timelessness of the project.

Do something you like that you feel is important. Don't worry about making money at it right away. If you try hard and long enough you will figure out a way to do it. Better to die happy than die rich.

I don't shoot many corporate or commercial jobs, but when you do, you had better have someone helping who has done it before.

To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known photographers who didn't speak the language and would work in a place for weeks without one, getting by on common sense and smiles. But how many situations did they miss because they couldn't talk to someone and get the back story on details, small daily life things, etc.