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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.