[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I think the wrong things are kept private

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

That girl who doesn’t even understand my language properly, understands my heart, but the one who should, doesn’t even try

children spend their time for they think they have more time

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

No one knows ish about ish, though some ish does get much closer to the real ish.

I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

If you don't have critics, you probably don't have success either.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.