Accepting Quote by Martin Parr

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

Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.

— Inge Morath

Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.

— Roland Barthes

I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm…

— Eugene Richards

Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.

— Vidya Balan

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you…

— 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

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If…

— Sarah Moon

I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you…

— Barbara Kruger

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

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

— Robert Genn

I don't like the camera. I get very self-conscious with it and then spend way too much time not looking self-conscious instead of being…

— Laurie Metcalf