Giles Duley

I am a big believer in love. Love for me is what got me through.

— Giles Duley

When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I…

— Giles Duley

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions,

— Giles Duley

I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the…

— Giles Duley

For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.

— Giles Duley

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera.

— Giles Duley

For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and…

— Giles Duley

I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.

— Giles Duley

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.

— Giles Duley

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't…

— Giles Duley

I don't see myself as being injured by a landmine or the Taliban; I was injured by ignorance and hatred. When people…

— Giles Duley

I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was…

— Giles Duley

People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.

— Giles Duley

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict,

— Giles Duley

If you focus on the things you can't do, you'll destroy yourself. Just remember everything you can do.

— Giles Duley

War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

— Giles Duley

To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the…

— Giles Duley

It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your…

— Giles Duley

Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything.

— Giles Duley

Everyone in a band has a big ego - they love having pictures taken.

— Giles Duley

It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.

— Giles Duley

I remember, on the medevac helicopter, I said to myself, "I am not f - - g dying in Afghanistan." People talk…

— Giles Duley

I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.

— Giles Duley

For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also…

— Giles Duley