Photo Quotes

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

When the report was submitted to the Health Board the next day, it did not make much of an impression... until my negatives, still dripping from the dark-room, came to reinforce them. From them there was no appeal.

I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people’s, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere between the worlds of documentary and photojournalism (two very vague words) and the world of art. I think a lot of street photography falls into this nether area.

When I look at the work of other photographers, what’s important for me is to see their vision in a photograph, not just a raw document.

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really --the important people are the people he photographs. They are what make him.