In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund
Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your previous work, and try to figure out what they can do to show a new side of you.
The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.
Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do.
I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.
I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish. . . This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.
Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.
Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.
The best plans evolve.
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
Learning how to use different formats has made me a better photographer. When I started working in medium format, it made me a better 35 mm photographer. When I started working in 4x5, it made me a better medium-format photographer.
I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.
Photographers are always imposing
I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?
The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored. The disease of our age is this boredom and a good photographer must successfully combat it. The only way to do this is by invention - by surprise.
I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.
