Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back.
Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting place, people who were either very rich or very poor, and nostalgia.
Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to people, you don't need to push people around.
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'
A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.
I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
Beauty can be seen in all things.
A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless
I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.
It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.
The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.
The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.
The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.
A very receptive state of mind. . . not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.