I'm Very Involved In Photographing

Photographs That Transcend But Do Not Deny Their Literal Situation Appeal To Me.

I Wanted Life To Be Episodic. I Wanted To Be A Magazine Photographer And I Was Willing To Do What It Took To Become That.

There Are Grander And More Sublime Landscapes - To Me. There Are More Compelling Cultures. But What Appeals To Me About Central Montana Is That The Combination Of Landscape And Lifestyle Is The Most Compelling I've Seen On This Earth. Small Mountain Ranges And Open Prairie, And Different Weather, Different Light, All Within A 360-degree View.

In My First Class At The University Of Kentucky, My American Literature Professor Came In, And The First Sentence Out Of His Mouth Was "the Central Theme Of American Literature Is An Attempt To Reconcile What We've Done To The New World." Wrote That Down In My Notebook, And Thought, "what Is He Talking About?" But That's What I Think About Now. The New World And What We've Done To It.

The Reason I Don't Want To Say Anything About It Is It Has A Strange Power To Take Over The Conversation. Just Like It's Doing With Us. I Was Asked To Participate In A Documentary About Richard Prince, And Be The Voice Of Someone Who Was Appropriated, And I Declined. The Reason I Did Is I Don't Want It To Be The Subject Of The Discussion Of My Work.