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• With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and…
• Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out…
• If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at…
• I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found…
• I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture.…
• The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re…
• You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space…
• Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
• My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.
• All photography is propaganda.
• Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.
• You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

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