To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

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