It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.
Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he or she is out there with camera in hand and the knowledge of what to do then the 'magnificent moment' occurs.
I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.
I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look cold.
Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.
I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.
Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.
There is no particular reason to search for meaning.
I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.
When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.
. . . the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the enigmas of photography.
I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.
Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.
Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just have to do better next time.
Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.
[Postmodern photography] implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing in the world without the bother of making new ones.
A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.