No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you want published and you'….

Finding the right subject is the hardest part..

I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interes….

The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about somethin….

I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than any….

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality..

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time survivin….

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is..

Reality is always extraordinary..

The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen..

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind..

I think you have to have a real point of view that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a specific….

I’m trying to please myself; certainly that’s a big criterion... though in a sense, I don’t take images just for myself. I take images that I think o….

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - ….

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society..

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter..

I don't think you can develop or learn a way of seeing or a point of view. A way of seeing is who you are, how you think and how you create images. I….

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit..

If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless..

Everyone asks me how I get my subjects to open up to me. There’s no formula to it. It’s just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people - of ….

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life..