There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. It’s a very satisfying, almost spiritual way to photograph. Life isn't’ knocking you around, life isn't controlling you. You have picked your place, you’ve picked your scene, you’ve picked your light, you’ve done all the decision making and you are waiting for the moment to come to you.

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.

How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.