The animals
“I think it’s a stupid term, “street photography.” I don’t think it tells you anything about the photographer or work. On the subject, I have […]
quotes
Go on anyway
“Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. […]
In the frame
“It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I’m not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I […]
A portrait
“I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in God, for the same reason their elders had had […]
Un sourire sexy
“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” — Steve McCurry I took this photo […]
We can live in the empty spaces of this life
“Photographers who can teach us to love even vacant lots will do so out of the same sense of wholeness that inspired the wilderness photographers […]
Mildly contemptible self-indulgent dilettante
“I have to admit that there is another reason I like photographers — they don’t tempt me to envy. The profession is short on dignity: […]
Colour is power
“Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you’re alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I […]
Visible world
“Thoreau got up each morning and walked to the woods as though he had never been where he was going to, so that whatever was […]
Out in the world
“What freedom! Just being out in the world, shooting whatever spoke to me or suggested itself to my eye. Actually, learning to listen to what […]
Under the sun
“Don’t censor yourself. Go ahead and photograph anything around you that seems interesting. Don’t compare yourself. People think ‘this has been done before’, and you […]
Utopia’s pill
“We are moving into a period of bewilderment, a curious moment in which people find light in the midst of despair, and vertigo at the […]
Poster generations
“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change […]
Without words
“This life I have made is too small. It doesn’t allow enough in: enough ideas, enough beliefs, enough encounters with the exuberant magic of existence. […]