Looking 'inside' a photograph, I always try to unravel the secret of the presented being, all the joy and sorrows, and first of all mysterious human fate.

Jerzy Tadeusz Lewczynski

[translation cited in "Archeologia fotografii" ("Archeology of photography") by Jerzy Lewczynski, Wydawnictwo KROPKA, Wrzesnia 2005, p. 51]