The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

When I’m photographing I see life.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.