"I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapon against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty." ~ Gordon Parks
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
~ Robert Frank
"I have never taken a picture I intended. They are always better or worse.” ~ Diane Arbus
I N S P I R A T I O N S
I am not interested in showing my work to photographers anymore, but to people outside the photo-clique." My pictures are not escapes from reality, but a contemplation of reality, so I can experience life in a deeper way." ~ Bruce Davidson
"There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment of the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Making a definitive declaration or meaning kills the photograph." ~ Daiado Monriyama
"You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there. Photography is about being exquisitely present." ~ Joel Meyerowitz
"Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt."
~ Walker Evans
"I don't believe a person has a style. What a person has is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out."
~ Sabastiao Salgado
"I am not interested in shooting new things—I am interested in seeing thing new."
~ Ernst Hass
“A picture is what it is, and I have never noticed that it helps to talk about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn't make sense to explain them. Kinda diminish them. People always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken and God knows why it was taken."
~ Bill Eggleston
“All art is a work in progress. It’s helpful to see the piece we’re working on as an experiment. One in which we can’t predict the outcome. Whatever the result, we will receive useful information that will benefit the next experiment. If you start from the position that there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and creativity is just free play with no rules, it’s easier to submerge yourself joyfully in the process of making things. We’re not playing to win, we’re playing to play. And ultimately, playing is fun. Perfectionism gets in the way of fun. A more skillful goal might be to find comfort in the process. To make and put out successive works with ease.” ~ Rick Rubin