You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.
My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at what's in front of you.
I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.
In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.
A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.
I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.
I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.
Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
