Gregory Heisler

“It happens a lot. The first frame is the winner.”

— Gregory Heisler

To me, style is like your fingerprint. Nobody else has it.

— Gregory Heisler

Shoot what you can't help but shoot

— Gregory Heisler

The last thing people want is a surprise, these days.

— Gregory Heisler

People aren't hiring just a picture, they're hiring someone they can work with. That plays a big role .

— Gregory Heisler

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

— Gregory Heisler

“Photography’s 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent moving furniture.”

— Gregory Heisler

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

— Gregory Heisler

Digital held no romance for me at all. I hated it. I miss my big cameras. The working process, I miss it.

— Gregory Heisler

I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.

— Gregory Heisler

Magazines don't have enough confidence to have their own style, so they use a borrowed style. That is shocking to me, but…

— Gregory Heisler

The picture I was hoping for is never the picture I get, but yeah, I think they fail all the time. Fortunately…

— Gregory Heisler

My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they…

— Gregory Heisler

I'm an artist in residence, I've still been able to accept commercial jobs, and what I'll do is I'll make little videos…

— Gregory Heisler

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work.…

— Gregory Heisler

I never do pictures that I've done before - but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try…

— Gregory Heisler

I was shooting lots of large format portraits then but I've since changed to digital, where you have so much more control.…

— Gregory Heisler

Normally I do all my own post work. It's not that I do it better than anyone else, I just do it…

— Gregory Heisler

I hate to say it because I think people are risk averse these days more than ever. Before they even pick up…

— Gregory Heisler

A lot of the challenge and the reason for the success of those one-shot photographers is that their pictures almost have to…

— Gregory Heisler

“Fulfill the assignment first. I aim to please, probably to a fault. This is not a strategy I’d recommend to the next…

— Gregory Heisler

The weirdest thing to me is that magazines would never do this for their writers. They would never hire a writer who…

— Gregory Heisler

The work is primarily subject-driven. All decisions flow from there. The photographs are all made in response to a unique subject, in…

— Gregory Heisler