We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner. — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of work being done that no one ever sees, or that is only seen in the gallery world. I feel… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I think it's terribly important to reach out and understand all the different types of life and the different types of challenges that are… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of photography at… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
There is a danger in our modern practice of using embedded journalism. As there is less and less money available for journalism to uphold… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I think, oddly, that the world of the amateur is quite self-contained, and it depends on "likes" from other amateurs to perpetuate itself. Of… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
The world of photography is very self-aware. Everybody is always looking around. So it's quite difficult to stand up with a megaphone and declare,… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
There was a time, right up until the end of the Second World War and beyond, when white people in Europe thought that they… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Environmentalism is a personal thing - but it's also a planetary thing. It's about making deep connections. But it's also about recognizing the very… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become. — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers showed Tokyo… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
We create these walls between fact and fiction, but often the difference between the two is as little as that between a real name… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I was always interested in drawing and painting. I enrolled in college to study painting. But I didn't have any livelihood when I graduated.… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
What people that are professionals in the art world - both in literature and the other arts - always try to do is to… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used is literally… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
In the same way, photography, for me, has fragmented. You do have people doing bodies of work - often with found photographs - that… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
