I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
I lived and grew up in the black and white period of photojournalism.
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
I used to be a journalist.
Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.
I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.
I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.
I used to be a print reporter.
I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.