I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa..

There's always a threat surrounding the things you love.

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything whe….

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about..

I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every direc….

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasur….

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person..

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people….

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job..

I'm lucky - I don't feel any pressure..

I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Pl….

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me..

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them..

Beauty is a dangerous word. Beauty becomes slightly indulgent for me. It's a snatched kind of moment for me because I'm entitled to a nice day in my ….

I don't want to die for a few pictures. I want to live for every sunrise I can clap my eyes on; I want to see my family get older; I want to see the ….

Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the unifor….

I think, the more of a student I am, the better it will be for my work because it means once you have too many accolades you don't try harder. I woul….

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks….

I want to be the toughest photographer in the world..

I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am….

I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by wit….