A personal bias

The point he wanted to make clear about all this, he said, was that as an artist he has the obligation to report the matter for what it is rather than in terms of his personal bias.

Life is so complex and so rich...

‘If I found, as I did, that the market is a very important part of the place, I say to myself that I must try to make a photograph of it. I don’t say. “Do I like markets?” No, I must accept the problem that is given to me not by art, but by life, by the life of the people. That is the primary starting point and that has become clearer in each book that I do . . . Life is so complex and so rich when you begin to tackle it this way that you have all sorts of possibilities. You don’t do the same thing over and over again, which is one of the dangers that all artists face.’