“Not that I’m a particularly good photographer. True, I once had a print included in a ‘Photographs of the Year’ exhibition in Paris; but, as every photographer knows, given a good miniature camera, many spoils of film and a little knowledge, every amateur will sooner or later take a good photograph. Like those other games of skill they play on English fair-grounds, it’s largely a question of chance.”

Eric Ambler: Epitaph for a Spy (1938)