When you're growing up your mother says, "Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold." When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

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

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.