My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

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

I'm very involved in photographing America now, so I don't think of faraway places, as I did when I was young.

Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.

I will just say, appropriation is an intellectual idea until it happens to you. It's a philosophy, and it's got its own intellectual framework. Then there's what happens when it's your photograph. Then it's personal, and that's all I'll say.

It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.

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