“Slow down, take time, allow yourself to be wildly diverted from your plan. People are the soul of the place; don't forget to meet them and enjoy their company as you explore a place.”

“Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.”

“Anyone can take a picture of poverty; its easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. Its much harderand much more needfulto pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity of people that...”

“You are responsible for every element within the frame.”

“As long as were alive and interacting with life, the world, and the people around us, well have something to say.”

“A photograph can communicate a couple things and sometimes only one thingvery well. The more you try to say with your photograph, the greater the chance that you will say nothing at all.”

“I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality ...”

“Plenty of masterpieces are just one clich after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it, two clichs that have never met each other before can beget the ...”

“I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichs, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in s...”

“Mediante la fotografa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicin fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusin de mi pasado.”

“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? ”

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another persons (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, a...”