Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.
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.
Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field.
The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.
The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.