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"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer."
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"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."

"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."

"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."

"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."

"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."

"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."

"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."
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"I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books."

"In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well."

"Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one."

"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer."
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