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I had been teaching myself photography.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

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.

I know about photography - I'm really good at it.

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

I've been working with photography for many years.

I have a photographic memory.

I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.