If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my re….

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed..

As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like havin….

I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph..

I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone..

My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. Thes….

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion..

I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends and family, the peo….

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds..

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position..

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward..

Photography is not something you retire from..

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is pos….

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valua….

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her ho….

The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves..

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way..

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time..

When I started to be published I thought about Margaret Bourke-White and the whole journalistic approach to things. I believed I was supposed to catc….

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the ….

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It i….