February 2012
3 posts
“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...”
– Arnold Newman
January 2012
5 posts
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people...”
– Dagobert D. Runes
“The magic of photography happens when you don’t see what’s coming...”
– Brian Smith
“I think we owe it to people to be careful in our portrayal of them and not...”
– John Macpherson
“What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word,...”
– Eve Arnold
“I want to see a return to a storytelling in photography as rigorous in thought...”
– Stuart Freedman
December 2011
5 posts
“Don’t worry about being better than anybody you know personally or whose work...”
– William Albert Allard
“Life happens between frames. If you don’t put down the camera to experience your...”
– 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...”
– Stephanie Rausser
“I don’t know if there was any single moment where I had an epiphany, “I’m a...”
– Andrew Eccles
November 2011
4 posts
“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...”
– Valerio Berdini
“Nothing takes the place of persistence.”
– Jay Maisel
October 2011
2 posts
“In photography, the two words I like most are “simplicity” and...”
– Yann Arthus-Bertrand
“The main thing for me is that I’m happy that I’ve been able to work...”
– Eli Reed
August 2011
4 posts
“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never...”
– John W. Tukey
“Having a story idea approved is always a stupendous and appreciative moment....”
– John Stanmeyer
“Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder...”
– David Hurn
“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to...”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
July 2011
2 posts
“All art requires courage.”
– Anne Tucker
“A camera didn’t make a great picture anymore than a typewriter wrote a great...”
– Peter Adams
June 2011
5 posts
“I think my interest gets sparked when I recognize a memory. That is when I take...”
– Alex Majoli
“I’m more interested in a photography that is ‘unfinished’ - a...”
– Paolo Pellegrin
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
– Mark Twain
“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about...”
– Paul Strand
“The job of the photojournalist is to witness those things that people...”
– Peter Howe
May 2011
5 posts
“The marvels of daily life are so exciting; no movie director can arrange the...”
– Robert Doisneau
“Good work comes from humility, not presumption.”
– Peter van Agtmael
“Today, I count myself blessed, having become a photographer. To be able to...”
– GMB Akash
“It (Photography) is almost like letting yourself fall in love everyday, letting...”
– Scott Schumann, The Sartorialist
“Every picture I take is like a diary entry.”
– Gilles Peress
April 2011
4 posts
“For me, photography is an investigation into the nature of being.”
– Steve Pyke
“Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated....”
– Sebastiao Salgado
“Taking pictures is like panning for gold. You do it again and again, and...”
– Raghubir Singh
“Hopefully, you’re risking failing every time you make a frame.”
– Garry Winogrand
March 2011
4 posts
“Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.”
– Eliot Porter
“I’d rather create something that moves a million people than washes over...”
– Ricky Gervais
“A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can’t answer...”
– Ernst Haas
“Shoot what you can’t help but shoot.”
– John Loengard
February 2011
4 posts
“One of the basic rules of the photojournalist is to be true to your subject and...”
– Kenneth Jarecke
“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.”
– David Alan Harvey
“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group...”
– W. Eugene Smith
“I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make...”
– Ruth Bernhard
January 2011
2 posts
“All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to...”
– Elliot Erwitt
“In the early days, I used to think I could take one picture, and if it were...”
– Larry Fink
December 2010
4 posts
“Photography is a love affair with life.”
– Burk Uzzle - [“Creative Camera International Year Book 1976”, Coo Press, London, 1975, p. 11]