If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

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  Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live o

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  I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

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  I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want ill

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  I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing g

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  When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone

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  There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that

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  Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

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  Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

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