… photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else.

A unique style,… is the by-product of visual exploration, not its goal.  Personal vision comes only from not aiming at it.  Over a long period of time and through many, many images, the self re-emerges with even greater strength than if it were the end-product.  Ironically, by starting with self, it is missed; ignore it, and it becomes evident.