Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.

It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

I will just say, appropriation is an intellectual idea until it happens to you. It's a philosophy, and it's got its own intellectual framework. Then there's what happens when it's your photograph. Then it's personal, and that's all I'll say.

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

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 think that it's workshops, honestly, that have kept me keen about photography, and about my photography. My career as a workshop photographer came while I was at the Geographic in the late 70's, and has continued consistently since then.