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

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.

[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.

Education means Independence and Independence means liberty!

I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now.

The prayer of a righteous man avails much

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence.

Handsome is as handsome does

Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free!