No one is you, and that is your power.
To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.
Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other rewards - recognition, financial remuneration - come to so few and are so fleeting. . . Take photography on as a passion, not a career.
I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.
Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.
Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.
There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much of the tropical world that has moved and disturbed me - in places where the indigenous culture is often transformed by an external northern culture (sometimes my own. . . I suspect that one has a few serious creative obsessions in life. I certainly cannot seem to escape this one.
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.