Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between the economic needs of our consumer society and the requirements of those who bear witness to this epoch. This affects us all, particularly the younger generations of photographers. We must take greater care than ever not to allow ourselves to be separated from the real world and from humanity.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

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.