Advocacy Quote by Mark Klett

What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about…

— Sebastiao Salgado

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

— Art Shay

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

— James Nachtwey

My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal…

— Jerome Liebling

I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I use photography…

— Michael Kenna

Even when political reporting is not reduced to personality, political photography is. An article might offer depth and complexity, but is illustrated with a…

— George Monbiot

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers,…

— Susan Meiselas

... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most powerful and…

— Richard Misrach

Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.

— Mary Ellen Mark

What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive…

— Andreas Feininger

Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another.…

— Vincent Laforet

We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the…

— Uta Barth