Discomfort Quote by Giles Duley

Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of…

— Taryn Simon

My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity;…

— Sam Abell

Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some…

— James Nachtwey

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to…

— Graciela Iturbide

I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not the primary…

— Richard Billingham

Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story, usually in…

— Rachel Morrison

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images…

— Benjamin Avila

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

Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to…

— Princess Diana

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic…

— Aaron Siskind

I don't know that there were any rules for documentary photography. As a matter of fact, I don't think the term was even very…

— Jack Delano

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in…

— Steve McCurry