Photography Quotes by Alex Webb

Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.

— Alex Webb

I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and…

— Alex Webb

My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is that he…

— Alex Webb

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

To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.

— Alex Webb

I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.

— Alex Webb

I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I…

— Alex Webb

Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much…

— Alex Webb

Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.

— Alex Webb

It's not just that that and that exists. It's that that, that, that, and that all exist in the same frame. I'm always looking…

— Alex Webb

Running through a lot of traditional photojournalism there is an overwhelming sense of... pictures that say something, that define something. I'm not trying to…

— Alex Webb

The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.

— Alex Webb

... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the…

— Alex Webb

There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much…

— Alex Webb

Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.

— Alex Webb