A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi.

If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to Sweden and you will have a different connection and it will be a very different experience.

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.

When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.