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 a poster that reads "Stop The War." Or you'll have a story about a cash crisis… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner. — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of photography at… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
There is a danger in our modern practice of using embedded journalism. As there is less and less money available for journalism to uphold… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
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,… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
There was a time, right up until the end of the Second World War and beyond, when white people in Europe thought that they… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become. — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
We create these walls between fact and fiction, but often the difference between the two is as little as that between a real name… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
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.… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
What people that are professionals in the art world - both in literature and the other arts - always try to do is to… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
In the same way, photography, for me, has fragmented. You do have people doing bodies of work - often with found photographs - that… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
