I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

As you can see, I keep my word, ” I call to the rest of the crowd. “Do not take advantage of my generosity, and I will not take advantage of your weakness.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to Tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I’m joking or not.

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.