The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.