Environmentalism is a personal thing - but it's also a planetary thing. It's about making deep connections. But it's also about recognizing the very ….

After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become..

We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is….

There was a time, right up until the end of the Second World War and beyond, when white people in Europe thought that they basically owned the world ….

It's certainly important to include text beside documentary photographs. Furthermore, it's important to include text in a way that's useful and acces….

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is….

We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers showe….

In the same way, photography, for me, has fragmented. You do have people doing bodies of work - often with found photographs - that are quite hard to….

As humans, we need to question all these notions. What does freedom mean for us? What are our responsibilities? It takes one-250th of a second to tak….

The world of photography is very self-aware. Everybody is always looking around. So it's quite difficult to stand up with a megaphone and declare, "T….

In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse and emotive; one figu….

Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of photography at….

I have a huge respect for the dedication that many people have, on the other side of the Atlantic, to photography. You can count them on one hand her….

There is a danger in our modern practice of using embedded journalism. As there is less and less money available for journalism to uphold its indepen….

There was as big a reaction after the revelations about Assad's chemical weapons. Nevertheless, that photograph did strike a singular chord. Which le….

I was always interested in drawing and painting. I enrolled in college to study painting. But I didn't have any livelihood when I graduated. My mothe….

Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used is l….

I love photographing. I love the experience of being around all the things that surround you when you go out to do work..

We create these walls between fact and fiction, but often the difference between the two is as little as that between a real name and a pseudonym. So….

My current project was shot on film, and because of that I've spent my entire day removing dust-specks from negatives. You wouldn't have to do that o….

I think it's terribly important to reach out and understand all the different types of life and the different types of challenges that are present ar….