If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it's sort of a magpie aesthetic - I just go and pick up whatever is around. If you think about it, the children were there, so I took pictures of my children. It's not that I'm interested in children that much or photographing them - it's just that they were there.

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.

To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. And I must do so with both ardor and cool appraisal, with the passions of eye and heart, but in that ardent heart there must also be a splinter of ice.