Jerry Saltz on the Mandalorian.

Street photography is an incredibly rewarding and grateful activity. The physical exercise of walking and sometimes literally chasing an image, the felt excitement, the unexpected encounters with beautiful strangers and fellow human beings that are, as Henri Cartier-Bresson used to put it, consenting victims, it all is rewarding enough. The photograph is just the bonus.

Van Gogh on Steroids: experiencing the Hockney Exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

It's fascinating how true value is created by simply applying oneself with passion and love for whatever it is we are doing.

A great photograph is an experience. It is seeing the image and feeling in love, amazed, inspired. It is the perfect alignment of light, lines and perspective that opens a myriad of doors; time travel, instant travel, dreams and imagination, connection, memories, nostalgia and even liberation.

In January 2009 I went to Istanbul for the first time. I intended to come by boat from Odessa, inspired by the Byzantine history of trade routes.

The Luxembourg gardens in Paris belong to the Palais du Luxembourg, which houses the Senate.

Istanbul’s Galata bridge; Turkeys universe reduced to a single spot of a little less than 500 meters long and a little over 40 meters wide.