Steve McCurry Quotes

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• Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.
• What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together coherently.…
• A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass…
• The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.
• It’s important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you,…
• If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph
• I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. Whether you're photographing for yourself, for your job, whether…
• If you want to be a photographer, first leave home
• I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.
• What matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.
• If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view.
• For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope (...)Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was that…
• A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at it again and…
• My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

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