[The Middle East conflict ] just kind of ran its course for me. For a long time I could justify doing it to myself, no matter how irrational it was. It was important to me and my work. And I… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the work I've done and a lot of the work I'm going to do in the future still ties… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in America] as well. It resonates with this moment and the sort of alienation from the power structure a lot of people feel, as well as a certain amount of desperation, in the hope of disrupting the power structure… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share
You find [reverberations from 9/11 ] in them most unexpected places, like graffiti on a wall. Sometimes it's a faded picture; sometimes it's a… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Nothing is over until there's something more decisive than your own thoughts. — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
It was sometimes provoked by assignments, then I'd go back on my own dime if I really clicked with a place. And sometimes it… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
The big question that everyone is asking themselves, or what they should be asking themselves right now, is what role has the media played in not just missing a certain part of American society that wanted to vote for, say, Donald Trump, but what role has the media played in dehumanizing other people and helping create these conditions that people… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share
Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
I'm a constant editor. Every few months or so I make a ton of 4x6 prints. I put them on a magnetic board and I live with them for a while to see what bubbles to the surface. A lot of this was part of Disco Night originally, and I suddenly started realizing, "If I keep working on this because… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share
The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11. — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
I am still covering conflict to some degree. I was back in Iraq. I've covered quite a bit of the Israel and Palestine. But… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time." I'd heard a small part of it in a… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
![“[The Middle East conflict ] just kind of ran its course for me. For a long time I could justify doing it to myself, no matter how irrational it was. It was important to me and my work. And I just don't feel it in the same way any more. When it comes up and it's important to me, I'll do it, but…” quote by Peter van Agtmael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba7/peter-van-agtmael-25908_bigs_the-middle-east-conflict-just-kind-of-ra_2760410.jpg)
![“You find [reverberations from 9/11 ] in them most unexpected places, like graffiti on a wall. Sometimes it's a faded picture; sometimes it's a newspaper tacked to a wall. Sometimes it's weird paraphernalia related to it, home constructed paraphernalia. It resonates through society and continues to…” quote by Peter van Agtmael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f33/peter-van-agtmael-25908_faded_you-find-reverberations-from-9-11-in-the_312019.jpg)
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