I Found A Way Of Working Which

Recording Sessions Were Stimulating To Photograph, Because Everything Was In Motion: The Subject, The Musicians, The Technicians And The Photographer. You Needed Fast Reflexes To Keep Up With Moving Targets, And Sensitivity And Skill To Get The Pictures While Keeping Out Of The Performers' Eyeline So As Not To Break Their Concentration.

I Realise That I Had The Best Of Serious Picture Journalism. There Was An Innocence In Our Approach, Especially In The 1950s And 1960s When We Naively Believed That By Holding A Mirror Up To The World We Could Help - No Matter How Little - To Make People Aware Of The Human Condition.

If The Chemistry Is Right Between Star And Photographer And The Geometry Of The Pictures Pleases The Star, Often The Two People End Up With A Long-term Professional Friendship During Which They Continue To Work Together And To Produce Highly Personal Images.

If A Photographer Cares About The People Before The Lens And Is Compassionate, Much Is Given. It Is The Photographer, Not The Camera, That Is The Instrument.

What Drove Me And Kept Me Going Over The Decades? If I Had To Use A Single Word, It Would Be 'curiosity.