Being Disabled Gave Me An Immense Advantage.

When You Are Doing A Lot Of Hard Fast Field Work, It's A Physical Necessity To Forget Every Day. You Can't Try To Remember It In Any Continuity. You Get So Burdened If You Try To Do It The Other Way. You Can't Dictate To Your Material... We Found Our Way In, Slid In On The Edges. We Used Our Hunches. And It Was Hard, Hard Living.

Photography Is A Lot Like Telling A Large Predatory Cat What To Do-while An Audience Of People You Can't See Watches You.

You Go Into A Room And You Know Where You're Welcome; You Know Where You're Unwelcome.sometimes In A Hostile Situation You Stick Around Because Hostility Itself Is Important.the People Who Are Garrulous And Wear Their Heart On Their Sleeve And Tell You Everything, That's One Kind Of Person, But The Fellow Who's Hiding Behind A Tree And Hoping You Don't See Him Is The Fellow That You'd Better Find Out Why.

This Benefit Of Seeing...can Come Only If You Pause A While, Extricate Yourself From The Maddening Mob Of Quick Impressions Ceaselessly Battering Our Lives, And Look Thoughtfully At A Quiet Image...the Viewer Must Be Willing To Pause, To Look Again, To Meditate.

The Words That Come Direct From The People Are The Greatest.if You Substitute One Out Of Your Own Vocabulary, It Disappears Before Your Eyes.