Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's not in the shock that one finds art. And it's not the excessively beautiful. It's in between; it's in nuance.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like.

Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.