Quotes About Photography

I've been working with photography for many years.

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

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

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

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.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.

When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or having themselves photographed in ways they wanted to be seen.

I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.

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.

I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

When I was a kid, I loved photography, and I loved makeup.

And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.

I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

Photography is very personal to me. God knows how many rolls of film I have that I've never shared.