Photographer Quote by Erin Siegal McIntyre

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

— Anders Petersen

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t…

— Emmet Gowin

I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.

— Alex Majoli

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos…

— Arthur Tress

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do…

— Martin Parr

My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how…

— Massimo Vitali

When you're with people that are aware of the fact that you're a photographer, they'll say, "Oh, look at that! That's something to take…

— Ari Marcopoulos

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

— Danny Lyon

As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images…We pass…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

As a photographer you have to do things you don't want to.

— Massimo Vitali

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into…

— Paul Strand