I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection.

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection.

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death.

Photography is about a single point of a moment. It’s like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life.

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.