One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.

The big idea behind it was to somehow participate in the discussion about justice. What does it mean to be just to the others out there whose lives we do not think about. One of the answers I came up with was simply tell their stories.

The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.