Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.