Quotes by
Pauline Vermare

Street photography is the art of gleaning what is at hand — subjects, lights, shapes — to create beautifully composed and arresting images.

Time and patience are essential in street photography.

One of the things I think is most important is to make objects. Whether they be books or real [prints] of what you have been shooting, especially because we live in this sort of digital world, there’s a need for physical entities. It [can be a] very playful way of looking at your work.

Street photography requires the utmost level of curiosity and openness to the world — a strong belief in serendipity.

Street photography is all about being aware and curious and open to the world.

One of the limitations of the ‘decisive moment’, the moment where everything comes together: the content and the composition, the content and the form is what photographers are looking for, but there is a lot of beauty in the ‘undecisive moment’. The ‘weak’ moment in the photograph where nothing seems to be happening. Photography is not so much always about the one frame, photography can be very much about the series [and] the sequencing.