Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

All photography is propaganda.

Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or to make a subject look better than it really is. Think of family snapshots - everyone is smiling and happy.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly.

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.