In India in particular, where millions have no home but the streets, virtually every life event is carried out in public: prayer, eating, sleeping, nursing, crude dentistry, even bodily functions. In the secular West, where nothing is sacred, everything seems hidden; yet in Asia, where nothing is hidden, everything is sacred.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph.

It’s important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you, and not what others think is important for you.

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story.

The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.