I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment has changed.

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

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

The class that I teach is called "The Life of a Photograph." It takes up the question, of the billion photographs that were taken today, how many will have a life, and why? So the new reality has made the question more pertinent, not less pertinent.

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

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

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.