There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

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

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

[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.

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.