Quotes About Photography

If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset that you didn't have a back-up.

After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

I photography women as I liked to fell in love of them.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I always take working out seriously, but before a shoot I do extra sit ups and squats. I also eat more vegetables and drink a ton of water, because it really helps my skin glow.

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.

All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening.

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.

The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.