In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds. Photograph also has two sides to it and thank goodness, I am only intersted in those who discover; I feel a certain solidarity with those who set out in a spirit of discovery; I think there is much more risk invovled in this than in trying to create images; and in the end, reality is more important.

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.

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.