The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

Literature usually begets literature.

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.