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We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.

I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

Photography is an accident.