Currents Quote by Hiroshi Hamaya

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 never had a “project.” I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes... I tried to capture with my camera, for others to…

— Helen Levitt

I'm a documentary image maker, still and moving, because keeping the real world on the agenda is really important at a time when we're…

— Tim Hetherington

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you're…

— Agnes Varda

I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities arose. But…

— Marshall Curry

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to…

— Dennis Muren

I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared about, and…

— Curtis Hanson

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

I think when I envisioned my documentaries, what I wanted to do when I left, I had no business doing those documentaries. I didn't…

— Chelsea Handler