photography

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Life is like photography; we develop from the negatives.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.

It's not the scene, it's the moment.

"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."

I wasn’t sure what was going on or what time it was or where I was or even, for that matter, who I was … but my gut told me something was terribly wrong. I opened my eyes slowly, as sensitive to light as a roll of film: just expose me and I’d vanish.

Every photo you take is a self-portrait.

You don't take a photograph, you quietly ask to borrow it.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.