I've been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as I do my photography. My time is devoted to that too.

I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it's that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I'm interested in.

A photograph has edges the world does not.

As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.

I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content.

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's a frozen image.