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> [There was as big a reaction after the revelations about Assad's chemical weapons. Nevertheless, that photograph did strike a singular chord. Which leads us to a larger fact: we don't understand why certain photographs create such an upheaval in one's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/there-was-as-big-a-reaction-after-the-revelations-about-assad-s/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

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## More by Stuart Franklin

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/there-s-an-awful-lot-of-work-being-done-that-no-one-ever-sees-or-that/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/i-think-it-s-terribly-important-to-reach-out-and-understand-all-the/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of photography at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/photography-was-increasingly-being-seen-as-something-outside-the-art/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [There is a danger in our modern practice of using embedded journalism. As there is less and less money available for journalism to uphold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/there-is-a-danger-in-our-modern-practice-of-using-embedded-journalism/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/i-think-oddly-that-the-world-of-the-amateur-is-quite-self-contained/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/the-world-of-photography-is-very-self-aware-everybody-is-always/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [There was a time, right up until the end of the Second World War and beyond, when white people in Europe thought that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/there-was-a-time-right-up-until-the-end-of-the-second-world-war-and/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/environmentalism-is-a-personal-thing-but-it-s-also-a-planetary-thing/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/after-my-mother-died-i-lived-with-relatives-reading-was-a-means-of/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/we-don-t-understand-what-photography-is-doing-we-don-t-understand-the/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [We create these walls between fact and fiction, but often the difference between the two is as little as that between a real name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/we-create-these-walls-between-fact-and-fiction-but-often-the/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/i-was-always-interested-in-drawing-and-painting-i-enrolled-in-college/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [What people that are professionals in the art world - both in literature and the other arts - always try to do is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/what-people-that-are-professionals-in-the-art-world-both-in/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/newspaper-photographs-nowadays-are-highly-tautologous-you-ll-have-an/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

> [In the same way, photography, for me, has fragmented. You do have people doing bodies of work - often with found photographs - that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/in-the-same-way-photography-for-me-has-fragmented-you-do-have-people/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

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