Quotes About Photography

My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!

I still haven't figured out how to have fun on a shoot.

You can only do Miss Universe once, so take as many pictures as you can, enjoy, and have fun.

I've shot in Hawaii a few times, and it's always magical.

The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.

I've got one of those heart-shaped faces and I take weight on my cheeks and jowls and gut, so in pictures I look much heavier than I actually am.

Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights.

Some heroines look very glamorous in bikini.

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. (Face palm!)

The matter of art in photography may come to this: It is the defining of observation full and felt.

When I'm photographing, I think - like any rescue worker who deals with tragedy - you have to have some protective barrier around your heart so you can do your job. You tend to have a delayed reaction to things. I feel things more deeply after I put the camera down.

Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.

In the mid-1990s, when I stopped having to run from the shows to the film developing lab and first saw digital images, I blessed technology and was convinced that my working life was changing for the better.

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

I've exhibited quite a few of my photographs. I expand them digitally till they're very big. It's an art school thing, I suppose.

When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 next to an ad with Klara Wester from 2009, you don't see a 20-year difference between the pictures.

I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter.

'Humans of New York' wasn't the result of a fully finished idea that I thought of and then executed; it was an evolution. There were hundreds of tiny evolutions that came from me loving photography.

You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.

A tip for looking 'picture perfect' is probably a smile. I think everyone looks better when they are happy; you give off a glow - or at least that is what my mum would say!

On the red carpet, one tip is to suck in your cheekbones - apparently it looks better on camera. I don't know, though; I think a nice smile is best.