Slow down, take time, allow yourself to be wildly diverted from your plan. People are the soul of the place; don’t forget to meet them and enjoy their company as you explore a place.

Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.

Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and much more needful—to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity...

This is who she is to me. It’s how I feel about her. See how amazing she is?

A representational photograph says, ‘This is what Vienna looked like.’ An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, ‘This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.

Photography is not something you retire from.

In taking that photograph, I understood something I will never forget: how I wished to arrest all the beauty that came before me. Not the classical beauty of symmetry and exact proportions or the fancy...

It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote, falsifying everything. It was a trick of the lenses. The man is an accurate...

Photography is about capturing souls, not smiles.

..giving power to negative thoughts or fears was bringing ideas to life in physical world,idea in mind became emotion in heart,emotion turned into words spoken,written,painted,strummed across guitar strings,or vibrantly held note by Tibetan singing bowl,...

Photography is without mercy–though it’s nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat’s meat men.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he can, calls her Juliet, and puts a nice verse Shakespeare underneath, and the...

When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!

In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.

When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.

Film photography will always be superior to digital – because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you’ve got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and...

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.

Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

Regarding the creative: never assume you’re the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you’re masterful.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Be in love with the moments of your life.

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

Photography is all about the perspective!

In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of...

I nearly believe you. The challenge remains extended-make me believe you — Benjamin

Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.

Kodachrome… it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think all the world’s a sunny day,Oh yeah!I’ve got a Nikon camera, I’d love to take a photograph,so mama don’t take…my...

Keep shooting. It helps the model’s confidence. Flashing strobes are likeapplause.

He wanted to live life to the extreme, but without any mess or complications. He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a...

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

I see it all through the lens of my camera—the flurry of movement, the venue staff in black T-shirts, giving orders into their headsets. As I take it all in, my mind weighs the texture,...

People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they’re doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.

Seeing God is all about getting in touch with reality. If you want to photograph God, focus your lens on Hamakom, The Place, anyplace where you see divine light illuminating reality. Let your camera collect...

The BlessingHeads are covered by the Tallit, or prayer shawl; hands are extended out with the fingers splayed to form the shape of the letter Shin, the first letter in the word Shaddai, a name...

When the world asks “what was it like?” Only the photographer can say “See!

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I...

I am not a photographer , I am a canon owner !!!

You see, i f you have t rue photographic vision, you have clar i ty and i f you haveclarity, you don’t need to explain or defend your images.Clar i ty is about what emot...

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental...

As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like...

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.

l’anéantissement anéanti, la fin… privée d’elle-même.

The only thing they’ll let you shoot with a camera.

Look― shoot all you want. With a camera you can barely capture a soul at a time. With planned obsolescence, you can terminate everyone’s future at once and they’ll never know what hit them.