Quotes About Capture

I am trying to capture the women I photograph at their happiest. That is when they look their most beautiful. But I do understand that you have to make somebody feel completely comfortable in order to bring that out.

How do you photograph data?

I always carry a Moleskine journal and a simple Parker Jotter click-pen. Journaling an experience is worth more than any photograph.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.

I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.

As a photographer, there are times when I have to decide if it's appropriate to invade a moment with my camera.

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

The camera photographs what's there.

I love photographs. I love taking photographs. When I see something that's great, I want to capture that. You put it out there and on a place like Instagram you can put it there and review it later.

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

I have a lot of respect for these rock photographers. You realize that some of them were really led into the inner circles of some of these artists and bands. And you see how those photographs really capture the artist, the moment.

I always liked taking photographs.

Photography is like oxygen for me. My hobby is my oxygen.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

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

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

Photography has always been about capturing light.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.

There's something about light field photography that's just magical.

To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn't exist before and couldn't exist after. It's almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you're dead - not them. To me, photography's always like that.

Photography is not a fine art at all.

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.