I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Reality is always extraordinary.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

You can’t prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain.

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

All colours are arbitrary.

I suffer fools gladly because I am one of them.

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.

You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

Focus on a specific intention... A goal is often fueled by fear... An intention is fueled by a sense of purpose.

I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday's gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.