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

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

Increasingly, it's people not interested in National Geographic.

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the workshops, they're consumed with seeking the subject, and I teach seeking the setting.

My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that.

I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, and I said that my career came to an appropriate close, and I still loved photography. Not everybody who spends their career at anything ends up fascinated and involved with it.