Believe Quote by Hiroshi Sugimoto

The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the…

— Edmundo Desnoes

People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion…

— Sade Adu

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There…

— Larry Clark

One of the things I learned early on was the system of believing: you have to believe in what you say. The camera is…

— Wes Studi

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

— Nick Cave

The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being…

— Marc Riboud

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

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business,…

— Danny Lyon

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

— Christian Boltanski

It's just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people. Your subjects will trust you only if you're confident about…

— Mary Ellen Mark

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