I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.

The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.