We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
Do what the client wants, not what you want.
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. . . I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.
After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.
This is not a problem. I'm making everybody very calm, distracted by my bad results and then I'm going to shoot. One good result and I'm coming back. This is a distraction, it's the calm before the storm.
I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.
Most comedy comes out of misery.
I realized that most white Americans knew very little about our history and our struggle, and were having difficulty understanding the basis for our agitation and our resistance and our complaints. I also discovered that while black Americans had a sense of the beauty and tragedy of the journey from the time of slavery until now, we were not rooted in the specifics. I thought one way to familiarize people with that history would be through the voices of the great folk artists.