I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.
I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and work with scientists.
I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.
Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.
There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
I'm really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.
I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.
Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.
Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.
