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I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.

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In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is…

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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

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Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

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I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

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What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

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Photographing a cake can be art.

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