You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.

Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."