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Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.


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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept



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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.



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Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.



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