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

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.

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

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

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