Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

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.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.