Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs, and as creative as any of the best fine-art photographs. [...] I don't want to just be a photo essayist; I'm more interested in single images...ones that I feel are good enough to stand on their own.

Reality is always extraordinary.

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.

No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you want published and you're being selective again. You develop a point of view that you want to express. You try to go into a situation with an open mind, but then you form an opinion, and you express it in your photographs.