We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects….

You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirk….

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've g….

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express..

The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing..

I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't fin….

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society..

To ask people's permission to take their pictures? Sometimes it feels right to ask, but I will not ask, unless it is essential to do so. If you asked….

Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph..

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist..

All photography is propaganda..

I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't warn people beforehand. That's why I'm….

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work..

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it..

Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs..

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show p….

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local su….

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't..

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar..

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwa….

I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don….