Exotic Novelty. My Statement To [people] Is

Yes, There Are Billions More Photographers, And Billions More Photographs Every Day, But Who's Building Up A Point Of View? Who's Photographing With Intention, And Whose Body Of Work Will Sustain Itself And Survive?

In My First Class At The University Of Kentucky, My American Literature Professor Came In, And The First Sentence Out Of His Mouth Was "the Central Theme Of American Literature Is An Attempt To Reconcile What We've Done To The New World." Wrote That Down In My Notebook, And Thought, "what Is He Talking About?" But That's What I Think About Now. The New World And What We've Done To It.

My First Priority When Taking Pictures Is To Achieve Clarity. A Good Documentary Photograph Transmits The Information Of The Situation With The Utmost Fidelity; Achieving It Means Understanding The Nuances Of Lighting And Composition, And Also Remembering To Keep The Lenses Clean And The Cameras Steady.

There's A Great Quote About Virginia Woolf, She Had The Same Spiritual Stake In Her Diaries As She Had In Her Writing.

Typically I See It With Photographers Who Go To A Place Like India Or Nepal, And Everything's So Colorful And Exotic And They Think, Therefore, A Picture's Been Taken.