Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.
Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
An image is better than one thousand words
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.
Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.
For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.
Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.
Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.
The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel that. That's what makes people feel comfortable. It is important to appear confident with clients, but it is more important to not be afraid to act like a fool, have fun, laugh and shake your hips to get people comfortable.
I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.
If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.
There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.
I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.
Creativity needs to extend beyond the lens. Find creative ways to showcase your work and get it seen. Straight up tenacity, hard work and determination will always be part of the equation, so get to it.
There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!
Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.
It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.
I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite.
