Photography Quotes by Eugene Richards

I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties,…

— Eugene Richards

Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters, whose job…

— Eugene Richards

I can photograph someone if I can touch them.

— Eugene Richards

War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.

— Eugene Richards

My biggest problem is I'm so uninteresting that all these people forget I'm around.

— Eugene Richards

...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents…

— Eugene Richards

Approaching people is not - it's ironic that it's what I do - but it's not necessarily what I enjoy doing. Later on, I'm…

— Eugene Richards

I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm…

— Eugene Richards

That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course…

— Eugene Richards

It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a…

— Eugene Richards

There's never a time that I'm not intrusive. That's the base of what we - photographers - do: we're intrusive. Anyone saying the opposite…

— Eugene Richards