I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

A photograph has edges the world does not.

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.

The danger is that you can wind up doing tourist pictures. I want to see it fresh and see the little bits of everyday life that a native might take for granted, but that are special to the place, while at the same time, not taking a picture that would be a tourist cliché.

I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a long time.

Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now it’s twice that.

I do what feels natural, but I can't say I haven't thought about it.