Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.

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

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

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

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.

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.