Challenges Quote by Dawoud Bey

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and…

— Roger Ballen

“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them…

— Dave Hickey

I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage mode, this…

— Torbjørn Rødland

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers,…

— Susan Meiselas

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

— Janet Malcolm

I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more…

— Deborah Turbeville

...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The…

— Robert Adams

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

“Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.”

— Debasish Mridha

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

— Mary Mattingly

... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most powerful and…

— Richard Misrach