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I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

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.

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.