Today, use your words to lift up and bless the people around you.
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.
For me, making a photograph is mostly an intellectual process of understanding people or cities and their historical and phenomenological connections. At that point the photo is almost made, and all that remains is the mechanical process.
How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these circumstances. It’s all creation. It’s made. It’s not a given.
[When] I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots. Since I do not take rapid photographs it is in this respect like a painting which takes a long time where you are very aware of what you are doing in the process. Exposure is only the final act of making the image as a photograph.
I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.