Teaching Has Never Been Far From My

I Did It Once, And National Geographic Recruited Me. I Did It Primarily Out Of Curiosity. A Lot Of Legendary Photographers Had Worked On That Campaign. Ernst Haas Had Done The Early Photography, And I Knew Him. There's A Lore In Photography About That Campaign, And I Was Curious.

It Matters Little How Much Equipment We Use; It Matters Much That We Be Masters Of All We Do Use.

The Reason I Don't Want To Say Anything About It Is It Has A Strange Power To Take Over The Conversation. Just Like It's Doing With Us. I Was Asked To Participate In A Documentary About Richard Prince, And Be The Voice Of Someone Who Was Appropriated, And I Declined. The Reason I Did Is I Don't Want It To Be The Subject Of The Discussion Of My Work.

It Actually Has Transcended My Career At The Geographic, So That When My Career There Ended, I Had Momentum As A Teacher, And A Belief In Photographic Education At The Workshop Level.

How The Visual World Appears Is Important To Me. I'm Always Aware Of The Light. I'm Always Aware Of What I Would Call The 'deep Composition.' Photography In The Field Is A Process Of Creation, Of Thought And Technique. But Ultimately, It's An Act Of Imaginatively Seeing From Within Yourself.