The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.
What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.
That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.
I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic". I didn't have anything to do with "heroin chic".
The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?
I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.
Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.
The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9. 49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.
A photograph is a souvenir of life!
I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.
With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.
It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known.
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm sleeping. It's a shame given my passion for big cats. But I really enjoy photography, so I'd love to photograph leopards in the wild some day.
It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart.