At times people in the press were also useful to me.

I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.

Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.

I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.