Photographer

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.

My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.

The darkroom is just the means to an end.

I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.

No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me.

If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.

I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.

The gallery is generating work for the masses.