America Quote by Peter van Agtmael

I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who…

— Peter van Agtmael

I think a lot of the work I've done and a lot of the work I'm going to do in the future still ties…

— Peter van Agtmael

That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in America] as…

— Peter van Agtmael

You find [reverberations from 9/11 ] in them most unexpected places, like graffiti on a wall. Sometimes it's a faded picture; sometimes it's a…

— Peter van Agtmael

Nothing is over until there's something more decisive than your own thoughts.

— Peter van Agtmael

It was sometimes provoked by assignments, then I'd go back on my own dime if I really clicked with a place. And sometimes it…

— Peter van Agtmael

The big question that everyone is asking themselves, or what they should be asking themselves right now, is what role has the media played…

— Peter van Agtmael

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

I'm a constant editor. Every few months or so I make a ton of 4x6 prints. I put them on a magnetic board and…

— Peter van Agtmael

The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11.

— Peter van Agtmael

I am still covering conflict to some degree. I was back in Iraq. I've covered quite a bit of the Israel and Palestine. But…

— Peter van Agtmael

Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time." I'd heard a small part of it in a…

— Peter van Agtmael