Adequate Quote by Fred Ritchin

Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are…

— Fred Ritchin

As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to…

— Alfredo Jaar

To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience.

— Ruth Orkin

This idea of helping the next generation is a very intrinsic part of photojournalism. We need to continue to build this new group of…

— Ron Haviv

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

Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much…

— Alex Webb

I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use…

— Bill Eppridge

What is photojournalism? Occasionally, a very unique photo, in which form is precise and rich enough and content has enough resonance, is sufficient in…

— Henri

Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public…

— Robert Adams

There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just…

— Fred Ritchin

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as…

— Tod Papageorge