Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work..

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic..

The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I didn’t relate to European photo….

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life..

I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the r….

Sometimes, I'd take shots without aiming, just to see what happened. I'd rush into crowds - bang! bang! ... It must be close to what a fighter feels ….

I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whate….

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me..

I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting a machine, I do ….

I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people w….

I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of ph….

I feel like I'm doing something that's worthwhile. I feel like I'm showing something other people haven't shown. I don't get to talk to the people wh….

I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photogra….