Photographs That Transcend But Do

...just Like Some People's Instinct To Photograph Is Triggered By Vacation... Assignments Might Be That To Me And That's Why I've Built My Life Around Assignments. That Was The Way To Live The Photographic Life.

In Almost Every Photograph I Have Ever Made, There Is Something I Would Do To Complete It. I Take That To Be The Spirit Hole Or The Deliberate Mistake That's In A Navajo Rug To Not Be Godlike, But To Be Human.

I Had Luck, But I Worked Hard And I Suffered. It's Not Just Photography I'm Talking About. It's About Whatever Dream You Want It To Be.

Above All, It's Hard Learning To Live With Vivid Mental Images Of Scenes I Cared For And Failed To Photograph. It Is The Edgy Existence Within Me Of These Unmade Images That Is The Only Assurance That The Best Photographs Are Yet To Be Made.

We Know That Photographs Inform People. We Also Know That Photographs Move People. The Photograph That Does Both Is The One We Want To See And Make.