Fay Godwin Quotes

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• Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
• I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
• I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always…
• 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 the…
• I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
• It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that…
• The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
• But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in…
• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory…
• I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
• I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
• I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
• I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
• I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
• You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live…
• After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a…
• 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 and…

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