My photography website: DavidSheaPhotography.com
“The reason I take pictures is because I get angry about things that are happening. And I want them to change.”
— Marcus Bleasdale
“The real genuine stories are about 1 + 1 = 3.”
— Ken Burns
“A photographer should try to present something clear, deliberate”
— Kathy Ryan
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
— William Faulkner
“It’s my job to make someone quickly flipping through a magazine, maybe forwards or backwards or maybe even over someone else’s shoulder at some airport or somewhere, stop and want to read that caption, want to read that article, want to learn more about that person. If I can make someone have a knee-jerk thoughtless reaction to a well executed, peculiar, different, wonderful, or maybe even just odd looking photograph stop and read, I like to think I did my job well.”
— Jonathan Saunders
“Telling stories is not just taking nice photographs. They have to be meaningful photographs with layers of foundation beneath them.”
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Maggie Steber

“I don’t see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.”
— Eve Arnold
“If an artist doesn’t take risks, then it’s not worth it.”
— Robert Frank
“Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen.”
— Robert Bresson
“We don’t take pictures with our cameras. We take them with our hearts and we take them with our minds, and the camera is nothing more than a tool.”
— Arnold Newman
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.”
— Dagobert D. Runes
“The magic of photography happens when you don’t see what’s coming next.”
— Brian Smith
“I think we owe it to people to be careful in our portrayal of them and not exploit only a part of their (hi)story that suits our needs. Its the things that are important to our subjects that should define them, not the things that are important to we camera-toting observers.”
— John Macpherson
“What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be ‘curiosity.’”
— Eve Arnold
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I want to see a return to a storytelling in photography as rigorous in thought and research as it is beautiful in construction and execution. It should have self knowledge and a human centre but understand the tradition from whence it came.

Then and only then we will be judged not just on our photography but our humanity and approach.

Be close to people. Engage with the world. Be excited by it and want to make it a better place by your work.

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— Stuart Freedman