The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.
Some nomads are at home everywhere. Others are at home nowhere, and I was one of those.
I'd always been drawn to the purity of the desert, its hot wind and wide, open spaces. But mainly I was bored of life in the city, with its repetitions, my half-finished, half-hearted attempts at jobs and various studies. And I was sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity that was so much the malaise of my generation, my sex and my class.
I believe when you've been stuck too long in one spot, it's best to throw a grenade where you're standing, and jump... and pray.
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