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"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much."
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"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
"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."
"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."
"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
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"My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm."
"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
"I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism."
"The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house."
"When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing."
"What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional."
"If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist."
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