I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine…

I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a…

— Fred Ritchin

... photojournalism has its tremendous rewards and it's wonderful work. In what other work can you wander aimlessly with a camera around your neck,…

— Larry Towell

The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and in itself…

— Luc Delahaye

I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere…

— Alex Webb

What is photojournalism? Occasionally, a very unique photo, in which form is precise and rich enough and content has enough resonance, is sufficient in…

— Henri

I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether to go…

— Rachel Morrison

Photojournalism is photography with more story telling. A single image can be amazing and dramatic. I started out shooting individual images, but I found…

— Olivia Arthur

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

— Nora Ephron

Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are…

— Fred Ritchin

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

— W. Eugene Smith

After I discovered my degree in photojournalism would only get me a job in a camera store, I taught myself lighting. I read tons…

— Peter Menzel

If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that is much…

— Edward Burtynsky

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties'…

— John Szarkowski

If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from a high…

— Leonard Nimoy

And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no…

— William Eggleston