As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.

The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.

I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.

I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.

The day Rick Ross dives into the crowd, is the day we find out who his true fans are.

I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don't think I ever had before.

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

Taking constructive criticism from others is required to get to the next level.