There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
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.
Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he was taking my school photo that I didn't have a nice smile, and I shouldn't smile in photos.
So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.
Every time I get photographed, it's the legs. So I've insured them for a lot, for £5 million each. Is that enough?
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
I love being photographed, I love the ramp.