Finals Quote by Laurel Nakadate

We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or…

— Joel Meyerowitz

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

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

— Laurel Nakadate

What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show…

— Zoe Leonard

Photography begins not in the camera but in the mind and the eye. The real work is one of noticing and appreciating, seeing things…

— Bill Atkinson

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them…

— Kim Weston

Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even…

— Alec Soth

My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how…

— Massimo Vitali

In every successful still photographic project that I have completed, there has always been a turning point in the story where I felt that…

— Mary Ellen Mark

To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me…

— Francesco Carrozzini

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look…

— William Klein

I have gradually confused photography with life.

— Jerry Uelsmann