I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.
You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.
Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.
These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them
It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through an understanding of others and the world we inhabit. When that happens, the results, like photographs, are really the expressions of the life of the maker.
I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.
The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography. . . The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.
Hereditary sloth instructs me.
I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.
Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers, sprinkler systems and alarmingly generous wads of folding money.
When I was a kid down there it was always a dream to go to a Nebraska game but when you live in those small towns you hardly ever get up to one.