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

The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life.

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.

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

My connection to Santa Fe is very closely, and continuously a connection with Reid. I believe in him and his philosophy of photographic education.

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.