Father and Son; Making Photos While Breaking the Rules

When I started doing color and flash and then joined Magnum, I ran up against the rules that were quite literally laid out by Cartier-Bresson in “The Decisive Moment.” He said we only use black-and-white, and we don’t use “little flashlights” because we respect the natural light. I ran into tremendous resistance to what I was doing in the late ’70s — not just within Magnum, but because no one was doing that in the photojournalism world.

So I had to push up against those rules, violate those rules and pay the price for it in order to do my own work.