It Is No Longer A Matter Of

The Only Nature I'm Interested In Is My Own Nature.

Almost Inevitably There Are Tensions In The Picture, Tensions Between The Outside World And The Inside World. For Me, A Successful Picture Resolves These Tensions Without Eliminating Them.

We Look At The World And See What We Have Learned To Believe Is There. We Have Been Conditioned To Expect... But, As Photographers, We Must Learn To Relax Our Beliefs.

Producing A Photographic Document Involves Preparation In Excess. There Is First The Examination Of The Idea Of The Project. Then The Visits To The Scene, The Casual Conversations, And More Formal Interviews - Talking, And Listening, And Looking, Looking. ... And Finally, The Pictures Themselves, Each One Planned, Talked, Taken And Examined In Terms Of The Whole.

The Business Of Making A Photograph May Be Said In Simple Terms To Consist Of Three Elements: The Objective World (whose Permanent Condition Is Change And Disorder), The Sheet Of Paper On Which The Picture Will Be Realized, And The Experience Which Brings Them Together.