PHOTOPEDIA

“I have never been interested in photographs based solely on aesthetics, divorced from reality. I also doubt very much whether this is possible.”

“I have an intense desire to record life as I see it, as I feel it.”

“Formalism is everything.”

“All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing ‘Chopsticks’ on a concert grand piano.”

"Photography is like fishing. You go out, and sometimes you catch something."

“Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.”

“Good photography is unpretentious.”

“I am at war with the obvious.”

“I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.”

“My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation.”

“A photo can be more than just a picture. It can be a piece of history.”

“In order to exist, objects must be fragile.”

“I wanted to see what I could do, just for the sheer fun of it.”

"I'm happiest when I'm away from my studio, away from my house, and out with my camera.”

“I shoot like a documentarian, but I print like a painter.”

"I'm a humanist; I see the little things that we all share together."

"Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph."

"To be close to life, you have to be close to yourself."

"I have always felt that you should do the kind of work that is close to your heart."

“Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.”

I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.

"I believe in the basic notion that the world is infinitely interesting."

"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter."

"The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other."

"The pictures are there, and you just take them."

"We don't take pictures with our cameras. We take them with our hearts and we take them with our minds."

"The camera is just a tool; the real magic happens when the photographer can find the humanity in their subjects."

"I'm not interested in images that show something. I'm interested in images that feel something."

"My work is about an exploration of the world, trying to make some sense of the chaos of life."