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Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Wrestling seemed like something I might be good at, so I stuck with it and gave it a shot. I ended up in a pretty good place. I was very fortunate.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.

Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities.

The body says what words cannot.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.

I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.

I missed 100% of the shots I didn't take

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

I wear tinted visor not to trick other players, but so hot girls in stands don't see me looking at them