In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the work The print and a proper one is the only completed photograph, whether it is specifically shaded for reproduction, or for a museum wall.
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs
All photographs are self-portraits.
For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.
If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
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