When I stop and think of the most memorable photos I have seen, which ones come to mind ?

The raising of the flag on Iwo Jima

Marilyn Monroe with her dress billowing

Lee Harvey Oswald being shot

The young Vietnamese woman running towards the camera, burned with napalm

A Vietnamese General executing a prisoner

The most moving photo exhibit I have ever seen ? A collection called Migrations, by Sebastiao Salgado, displayed at the U. C. Berkeley Art Museum a while ago. (The photos are published in a book of the same name by Aperture.) I think what got to me was the vast scale of human suffering that these pictures showed.

I do a huge number of figure photos -- have done about 35,000 so far -- and while I continue to do about 5,000 of these a year, I am traveling now to West Africa, was there last month, will probably go again in a week or two, and have started with African photos.

I hope when it is all done and over I will leave something significant behind. I guess that's what we all hope for, isn't it?