Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it.

Of course it's all luck.

Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).