Luc Delahaye

I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and…

— Luc Delahaye

You have to record as many details as possible and achieve an order, without taking away the complexity of the real. To…

— Luc Delahaye

If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then…

— Luc Delahaye

I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world.…

— Luc Delahaye

The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and…

— Luc Delahaye

There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.

— Luc Delahaye

Photojournalism is neither photography or journalism. It has its function but it's not where I see myself: the press is for me…

— Luc Delahaye

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

— Luc Delahaye

There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.

— Luc Delahaye