Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

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.

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.