On waiting:

Most of what I do on set is nothing. I wait for the light to move, for the wind to drop, for a person to forget that I am there.

The long middle of a shoot

Every shoot has a long middle: the hour after the nerves wear off and before the tiredness arrives. Nothing photogenic happens. People check their phones, adjust a collar, look out of the window.

That is usually where the picture is. Not in the pose we planned, but in the gesture that happens while we are resetting.

Learning to be bored

Twelve years in, I have learned to be comfortable being bored. Boredom is just attention without an agenda — and attention without an agenda is the only way I know to see someone clearly.

So I wait. Then I take the picture.