That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not anti-digital, I just thi….

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….

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

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

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

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

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….

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 ….

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

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 - ….

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography..

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 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….

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….

Reality is always extraordinary..

Finding the right subject is the hardest part..

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

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work..

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking ….

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….

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