Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters, whose job it is to document what's going down, most of us go out in the world expecting… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same. — Eugene Richards Copy Share
My biggest problem is I'm so uninteresting that all these people forget I'm around. — Eugene Richards Copy Share
...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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
