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

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

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

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.

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

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.