Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note.... The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.

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

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

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.