To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed....

Strike all the adjectives from your bio. If you take photos, you’re not an ‘aspiring’ photographer, you’re not an ‘amazing’ photographer either. You’re a photographer. Don’t get cute. Don’t brag. Just state the facts.

A good selfie is when you successfully capture the feeling of that very moment!

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­

What I’m trying to describe is that it’s impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else’s…. That somebody else’s tragedy is not the same as your own.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, “”Gee, I’m glad I have that moment.””

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is...

The only other white people we saw during the three days we stayed there were a German couple intent on taking pictures of their stuffed sheep in a variety of locations around the world.

you’re all a bunch of sheep!” and even if they did say anything, I doubt anyone would listen… they’re all too obsessed and attached to their cellular phones and overly big televisions and whatever other...

Photographs don’t discriminate between the living and the dead. In the fragments of time and shards of light that compose them, everyone is equal. Now you see us; now you don’t. It doesn’t matter whether...

Stirton’s work, he says, is now all about investigation. ‘You literally are trying to find out what’s happening and, finally, manoeuvre yourself to the point where you can take a picture, and then you’re presented...

To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.

My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember in the moment I want to never forget.

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art

A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because you’re not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, ’cause what you...

The camera basically is a license to explore.

It’s amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.

In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Photographers are artists, they capture and bring emotion in the motions of life.

There are too many images, too many cameras now. We’re all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It’s just life. If all...

In the context of photography , there was a luck.But the luck will come, when the photographer is ready.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

The camera has always been a guide, and it’s allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn’t even notice.

I should get 365 different t-shirts made up, each a slightly different color than the last, forming a gradient from green to blue. Then I should take a daily picture, and move down the color...

In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children...

Photography is not selfish. Although it captures the moment, it doesn’t keep it. Photography gives back to the viewer the fraction of time which it once captured. Making it generous for years and even generations...

Looking into the mirror I ask myself:”You live in a house equipped with air conditioning.You eat tasty food.You utilize convenient transportation to travel.You utilize convenient information technology to live.Could you not say that you, who...

No, you don’t shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that’s what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see.

When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized...

First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible.

Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

You think too much and I bet it kills the magic,” he says simply. “Some things are just instinct and if you try and replace that with thinking they die. You can read and think...

Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready to have somone click the shutter.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to po or suffering humanity than anything else that has “cast up” in my...

The greatest moments in life are the ones right in front of you.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community by playing the role of the Dead: to make oneself up was to...

Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.

…I take photographs and I film my own home movies, I have a darkroom as well… but I can’t be a photojournalist like you… I can’t be anything… still, at least I can take photographs,...

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren’t expecting to.

Everything built with an art, May your eyes couldn’t see it, but digital eye can.