You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.

Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me.

I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new forms; formal qualities are only tools to help state my message.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.