I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning - but some phase of photographer I've always been.

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 go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

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

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