When you shoot, that is opportunity number one to make a statement. When you edit, you have opportunity number two to make your statement. It could be an affirmation of your first choice or could go off in another direction.

You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and look at it from all sides.

Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

Always shoot it now. It won’t be the same when you go back.

You sort of have to be always aware, even when you’re not thinking of shooting. That’s when the best stuff happens.

The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.

One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate to other colors that the fun begins.

You can’t just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.

What you’re shooting at doesn’t matter, the real question is: ‘Does it give you joy?’