Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.

We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?

Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.