If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.
The work is primarily subject-driven. All decisions flow from there. The photographs are all made in response to a unique subject, in particular context, at a specific moment in time. The thoughtful preparedness that defines my working method actually facilitates spontaneity and allows me to embrace surprise. I always have a game plan but view it as merely the jumping off point.
The picture I was hoping for is never the picture I get, but yeah, I think they fail all the time. Fortunately my clients don't think they do, so I can continue to have a career. But I just look at them and think.
To me, style is like your fingerprint. Nobody else has it.
Magazines don't have enough confidence to have their own style, so they use a borrowed style. That is shocking to me, but your perception is very accurate. It's a way to be more commercially viable, but to me, that's not having a style, that's having a schtick.
I never do pictures that I've done before - but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.
If Oprah, Steven Spielberg and Bono had a baby, I would be that baby.
Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.
I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all.
Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.