Occupation: Photographer Birth: May 5, 1952
Running through a lot of traditional photojournalism there is an overwhelming sense of... pictures that say something, that define something. I'm not….
Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other re….
My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is that he felt that color came out of ….
... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of ….
Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place..
To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play..
I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait ….
The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is..
I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos..
I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere between the wor….
Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a stre….
There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of ….
I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back t….
Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight..
Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing..
Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color of the….
It's not just that that and that exists. It's that that, that, that, and that all exist in the same frame. I'm always looking for something more. You….