Controversial Quote by Maya Goded

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme…

— Helmut Newton

I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth.…

— Gerhard Richter

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

Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of…

— Lucy R. Lippard

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

— Sam Abell

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through…

— Anja Niedringhaus

I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.

— Garry Winogrand

... 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

People say they want the cancer survivor, the good stories, but what they want - at least my audience - is pictures of hot…

— Clay Travis

Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to…

— Sarah Stillman

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

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and…

— Roger Ballen