I Think Of Myself As A Writer

That's Who Comes To My Workshops. I Jokingly Tell My Students That The Class Could Be Called "your Photographs: Better."

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.

I'm Interested In Smokers Standing On Ledges, And Big Box Stores, The Rise Of The Suburbs, And The Hollowing Out Of Small Towns. Self-storage. Things That Didn't Exist 50 Years Ago. Our Common Culture. What We Have Agreed Is Ok To Live With.

"you Know You Are Seeing Such A Photograph If You Say To Yourself, "i Could Have Taken That Picture. I've Seen Such A Scene Before, But Never Like That." It Is The Kind Of Photography That Relies For Its Strengths Not On Special Equipment Or Effects But On The Intensity Of The Photographer's Seeing. It Is The Kind Of Photography In Which The Raw Materials-light, Space, And Shape-are Arranged In A Meaningful And Even Universal Way That Gives Grace To Ordinary Objects."

A Very Big Part Of The Life Of A Photograph Is The Afterlife.