This Brazilian economist-turned-photographer has to be one of my biggest inspirations ever, right up there with the obvious Henri Cartier-Bresson as well as Robert Doisneau. Heavy hitters.

Most of my pictures, just like Salgado's, are in black and white. I can't say for sure why that is, it just seems to appeal to me in a particular way. When you take away the color from an image, you're left with...bare essentials.

Someone once said that when you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes, but when you do it in black and white, you photograph their soul. I wouldn't necessarily be so poetic about it but within those words lies a bit of true, die hard wisdom.

For those of you who have the energy to sit through these - be amazed! True talent.