It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

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.

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

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

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