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Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.
Oct 2, 2025
Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.
Photography is a language more universal than words.
I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.
Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
I didn't choose photography. Photography chose me.
Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...
I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
I don't trust words. I trust pictures.
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.
Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
The eye should learn to listen before it looks.
When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.
I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.
Photography is a love affair with life.
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
Light makes photography. Embrace light.
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.