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

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.

The class that I teach is called "The Life of a Photograph." It takes up the question, of the billion photographs that were taken today, how many will have a life, and why? So the new reality has made the question more pertinent, not less pertinent.

There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

I'm very involved in photographing America now, so I don't think of faraway places, as I did when I was young.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.