Life is once. Forever.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.

Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.

One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.