Photo Quotes

Many gestures disappear in an instant, but a posed picture doesn’t look real. You must not deprive people of their real body language. That is why I shoot from the hip. I don’t raise the camera up to my face. I don’t ask for permission. I never talk about it with them first.

Cameras today are not made by photographers, they are made by geeks. And geeks don’t take pictures.

You know, what we put into our pictures is not a smart idea. What we put into our pictures is our whole life and our whole intellectual discourse. Everything we know and everything we have done and everything that’s in our history goes into every single picture we take.

When people see you, the picture's gone for good. You cannot repeat it. Once people have noticed you, you have to give up. That's it. You blew it.

I was drawn to the ambiguity of life in a place not marked on a map.