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Photography helps people to see.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

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 gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

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

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.