In the end, I was trying to capture an essence of myself

“As a street photographer, I was trying to capture the people and the distinctiveness of the time, but simultaneously it was the city itself that was my focal point. In the end, I was trying to capture an essence of myself. All photographers, no matter what their concept, are all just trying to photograph themselves in a sense.”

Daido Moriyama, 2017
Quote from the Interview with Daido Moriyama by Tsuyoshi Ito for the Aperture Foundation 2017.
The Interview is accessible on aperture.org: https://aperture.org/blog/moriyama-endless-outer-world/