When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

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Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

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When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

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What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

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The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

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I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

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Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

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I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

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It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

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