I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As writers, we do our best to conjure a world so vivid that the reader can practically walk through it - but we're still only using words and relying on readers to do a lot of work of imagining. Providing pictures as well as words offers a whole new dimension to the experience of consuming a story.
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.
I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.
I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
I work on stories rather than individual pictures.
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.