Things Happen In Front Of

Sometimes I Enjoy Just Photographing The Surface Because I Think It Can Be As Revealing As Going To The Heart Of The Matter.

I've Created A Vocabulary Of Different Styles. I Draw From Many Different Ways To Take A Picture. Sometimes I Go Back To Reportage, To Journalism.

If I Didn't Have My Camera To Remind Me Constantly, I Am Here To Do This, I Would Eventually Have Slipped Away, I Think. I Would Have Forgotten My Reason To Exist.

The First Thing I Did With My Very First Camera Was Climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji Is A Lesson In Determination And Moderation. It Would Be Fair To Ask If I Took The Moderation Part To Heart. But It Certainly Was A Lesson In Respecting Your Camera. If I Was Going To Live With This Thing, I Was Going To Have To Think About What That Meant. There Were Not Going To Be Any Pictures Without It.

It's A Heavy Weight, The Camera. Now We Have Modern And Lightweight, Small Plastic Cameras, But In The '70s They Were Heavy Metal.