It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.

My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.