Photographer Quotes
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We photographers have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.
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On my YouTube channel, I put up 3-4 videos a week, and I spend a lot of money to maintain that content. When I travel, I travel with a videographer and a photographer no matter what.
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I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.
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The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.
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A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.
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A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his ability to accurately record reality. There are photographers who think they are lucky if they find unusual or special subject. But it is never the subject that is so marvelous. It is how alive and real the photographer can make it.
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The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.
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The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos.
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I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.
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Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.
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What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.
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Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.
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Photography just gets us out of the house.
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The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind of beauty, that the faces of the First World are not the only ones. These Indian, black, plundered white and mestizo faces are the first element defining the demographic content of our photography.
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Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.
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You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.
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Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.
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The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.
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I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
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In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.
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What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.
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The head of the photographer is more important than his camera.
