Alex Webb Quotes
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I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.
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Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other rewards - recognition, financial remuneration - come to so few and are so fleeting...Take photography on as a passion, not a career.
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I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.
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To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.
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Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.
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Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.
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Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory.
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Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.
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The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.
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My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is that he felt that color came out of tension between light and dark. I think that is very appropriate when you think about the kind of color that I shoot.