[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

...just like some people's instinct to photograph is triggered by vacation... assignments might be that to me and that's why I've built my life around assignments. That was the way to live the photographic life.

It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.

I would like to go to Antarctica. That's about all.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

When assignments were over, photography continued. One of the primary reasons it did was that I wanted and needed to have fresh work. Also, it's very stimulating to be around non-professional photographers. They're the ones with the purest flame burning about their photography. I appreciate that.