Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

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.

All photography is propaganda.

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.