What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.