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.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

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.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.