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I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.

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Martin Parr

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

Ideas, Photography, Reality, Show, Tool, Use
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I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly.

Away, Easy, Games, Gives, Giving, People

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.

Long, Moving On, Objects, Photo, Photography, Things

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures. . . You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.

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All photography is propaganda.

Photograph, Photography, Propaganda

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

Aspect, Familiar, Lives, Ordinary, Think, Thinking
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