Chance Quote by Harry Benson

You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.

— Olivier Zahm

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I…

— Peter Turnley

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 a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I have been a photographer all my life…and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that becomes more…

— Ralph Gibson

[Photography] tells you that every second in time is different from every other second. You want people to understand that the image in front…

— Roger Ballen

Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I got into journalism through writing, primarily. So even when I took photos when I was reporting, I never thought of photography as the…

— Jamelle Bouie

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of…

— Fred Ritchin

For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me…

— Erik Johansson

Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the…

— Nobuyoshi Araki