I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation