Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.
The things you don’t show can say more than the things that are made visible.
From an interview with Erwin at: https://talking-pictures.net.au/2020/12/12/erwin-olaf-a-hesitant-beauty/
There's nothing more extraordinary than reality.
Most people if I like their music, I can get good pictures.
When I’m photographing, I see life. That’s what I deal with. I don’t have pictures in my head.
I wish to capture the present with the eye of the past.
[cited in: Creative Camera April 1970, p. 118]
I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.
Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.
The camera captures light, our minds capture images.
Black and white photography is a perfect lie. We must not let colour destroy this image.
