“It’s elective, you don’t have to spend much time doing stuff you don’t like, in the end…”
~ Elliott Erwitt / Guardian
“It’s elective, you don’t have to spend much time doing stuff you don’t like, in the end…”
~ Elliott Erwitt / Guardian
“… You have to find what you can do better than anyone else and what you have in yourself that no-one else has.”
~ Wim Wenders / Louisiana Channel
“Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It’s just about seeing. You either see or you don’t see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.”
~ Elliott Erwitt / Courtesy of Mark Hobson
“You follow your way. I found this to be very important, that you stick to something that you believe in and not make compromises. Whatever you believe in, if you believe in it, it will be okay. You can do it. It doesn’t mean that you will be successful at it, but at least you believed in it to do it,”
~ Robert Frank
“…I realised that for the past forty years approximately ninety percent of my photographs have been made in my domestic space, my house or my garden.”
~ John Blakemore /March 29th, 2020
The thing I enjoyed about photography is that it’s just you and the camera.
“There’s something good about being a failure — it keeps you going.”
~ Robert Frank.
“Great photography is always on the edge of failure.”
~ Garry Winogrand
Where would you say your style falls on a continuum between completely intuitive and intellectually formulated?
Style again. Let’s be clear: the effort that’s worth making is to try to create helpful, lasting photographs, what Dorothea Lange called “second lookers”. We’re not talking about how to plot career moves in pursuit of name recognition, gallery representation or money. Though having said that, photographers have to eat, and I’m sympathetic with those who face difficulties. This is America, after all — a savage place
~ Robert Adams / Financial Times, October 04, 2019
“I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.”
~ Andre Kertesz
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
~ Robert Frank
“The great thing is to be free in your work. Of course it’s important to print or exhibit, but if that’s not possible you are still left with the most important thing of all—being able to work without asking anybody’s permission.”
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
“You just have to live and life will give you pictures.”
~ Henri Cartier Bresson