No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.