What we get to think and know about the world is in the hands of a very few... A truly informed public is antithetical to the interests of modern consumer capital. — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen. — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share
Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share
People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share
The ability to keep things in perspective is very important for a journalist. In a tense situation you need the ability to be there,… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share
The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share
What we get to think and know about the world is in the hands of a very few... A truly informed public is antithetical… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share
The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible. — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share
When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share
[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more. — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share
... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share
Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race.… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share
I attempt to channel my anger into the tip of my forefinger as I press the shutter. — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share
