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

Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the thing is being made. But the gap between what we recognize inside ourselves - our feelings- and our ability to trust ourselves and to trust exposing ourselves to those ideas, can be great.

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

Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.

I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a few. I did it as a reminder that you can't afford to waste time: take it seriously.

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

I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.