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"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."

"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."

"I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later."

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."

"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."

"My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is."

"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."

"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."

"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."

"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
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