What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.

What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.

My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate you....' I say: 'Listen, I think it was quite different. I saw people being killed.' They say: 'No. We never... no shooting. No. No.' So I can show them my Prague 1968 photographs and say, 'Listen, these are my pictures. I was there.' And they have to believe me.

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.

The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what's left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist.