Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and they think, therefore, a picture's been taken.

When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

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.

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."

I was giving a lecture and I said, that's enough about The Photographic Life, meaning my biography, now let's talk about the life of a photograph. And in that one instant I got the title for a potential next book.