I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

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

This might seem off the track, but an interesting thing to me that others could talk about better than I, but one of the growth areas in photographic education has been the so-called slow photography.

Yes, there are billions more photographers, and billions more photographs every day, but who's building up a point of view? Who's photographing with intention, and whose body of work will sustain itself and survive?