My photography website: DavidSheaPhotography.com
“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
“Don’t worry about being better than anybody you know personally or whose work you admire. Simply try to be better tomorrow than you were yesterday. You are not so much in competition with others as you are with yourself.”
— William Albert Allard
“Life happens between frames. If you don’t put down the camera to experience your subject, how can you bring anything uniquely personal to the subject?”
— A Lesser Photographer blog
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
“It is so important for a professional photographer to be able to tell a story that engages his or her audience, especially in the competitive and saturated climate today, where images and videos are at every turn.”
— Stephanie Rausser
“I don’t know if there was any single moment where I had an epiphany, “I’m a Photographer!” I think it was a gradual process that took years to come to terms with and accept. Being a photographer is such an emotional roller coaster: one minute you feel brilliant, the next you feel like you suck.”
— Andrew Eccles
“It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“If your subjects are eternal … they’ll survive.”
— Elliott Erwitt
“My approach is always to be open, always interested in the people and always interactive. To me, the best qualities of a photojournalist are good psychology and good shoes.”
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Valerio Berdini

“Nothing takes the place of persistence.”
— Jay Maisel
“In photography, the two words I like most are “simplicity” and “authenticity.”
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand