Lesson Number One: Pay Attention To The

If The Photographer Is Interested In The People In Front Of His Lens, And If He Is Compassionate, It's Already A Lot. The Instrument Is Not The Camera But The Photographer.

It Doesn’t Matter If You Use A Box Camera Or A Leica, The Important Thing Is What Motivates You When You Are Photographing. What I Have Tried To Do Is Involve The People I Was Photographing. To Have Them Realize Without Saying So, That It Was Up To Them To Give Me Whatever They Wanted To Give Me . . . If They Were Willing To Give, I Was Willing To Photograph.

The Instrument Is Not The Camera But The Photographer.

I Came To Photography By Accident.

I Found A Way Of Working Which Pleased Me Because I Didn’t Have To Frighten People With Heavy Equipment. It Was That Little Black Box And Me.