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

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

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.

It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.

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.

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

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