A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it’s as though I’ve neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn’t it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?