I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

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

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.

The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.

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.

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.

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.