A Photographer Must Always Work With The

Reality Offers Us Such Wealth That We Must Cut Some Of It Out On The Spot, Simplify. The Question Is, Do We Always Cut Out What We Should?

The Intensive Use Of Photographs By Mass Media Lays Ever Fresh Responsibilities Upon The Photographer. We Have To Acknowledge The Existence Of A Chasm Between The Economic Needs Of Our Consumer Society And The Requirements Of Those Who Bear Witness To This Epoch. This Affects Us All, Particularly The Younger Generations Of Photographers. We Must Take Greater Care Than Ever Not To Allow Ourselves To Be Separated From The Real World And From Humanity.

A Photographer Is Part Pick-pocket And Part Tightrope Dancer.

I'm Not Responsible For My Photographs. Photography Is Not Documentary, But Intuition, A Poetic Experience. It's Drowning Yourself, Dissolving Yourself, And Then Sniff, Sniff, Sniff - Being Sensitive To Coincidence. You Can't Go Looking For It; You Can't Want It, Or You Won't Get It. First You Must Lose Your Self. Then It Happens.

To Take Photographs Is Putting One's Head, One's Eye, And One's Heart On The Same Axis