Photography Quotes by Fay Godwin

After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced…

— Fay Godwin

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

— Fay Godwin

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers…

— Fay Godwin

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

— Fay Godwin

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures…

— Fay Godwin

I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have…

— Fay Godwin

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to…

— Fay Godwin

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

— Fay Godwin

And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing…

— Fay Godwin

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

— Fay Godwin

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

— Fay Godwin

I don’t get wrapped up in technique and the like. I have a simple rule and that is to spend as much time in…

— Fay Godwin

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

— Fay Godwin

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

— Fay Godwin

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

— Fay Godwin