Quotes About Experience

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

I really had a great time shooting for Dabboo Ratnani. He is such an experienced photographer and works in perfection.

Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.

I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

I do think my childhood is one of the fundamental reasons that I'm able to do my job. We were raised in this totally nonjudgmental family. We never knew who was going to walk in the front door. And as a journalist and a photographer, you walk into so many different scenes that you have to be open to everything.

That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential moment for me.

I like a shoot when I feel strong and sexy, a little hard, with a darker edge. That's what I do best. I like giving a photographer what they want, working with the art director. And modeling is all I've ever known.

I'm still learning and I'm still growing as a photographer.

I had a neighbour who was a photographer, and he'd always say, 'I am going to shoot you' and I would always cry.

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

If you travel 11 months a year - from one dangerous or isolated situation to the next - if you live in hotels, and every relationship with another human being is a two-week relationship, the only other people who have any idea what you're going through or how strung out you are are other photographers.

I never really learned photography.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.

I've been working with photography for many years.

Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I'd learned so much. It's the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel.

I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things.

Biking and photography are a perfect combination for me.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.