Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe having surveyed a few boxes full of letters diaries bank statements and photographs that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality vulnerability mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor and his head had burst.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive but I have photographs of her.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

There are no rules for good photographs there are only good photographs.