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

As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

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

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

I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them down, if you don’t make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.