Believe Quote by Sebastiao Salgado

One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products.…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.…

— Helmut Gernsheim

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach…

— Martin Parr

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to…

— Graciela Iturbide

Photography is an empathy towards the world.

— Lewis Hine

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

Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a…

— Sebastiao Salgado

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

— James Nachtwey

“Over the years I forced myself to be creative in how I covered the same scenes over and over. I started shooting refugee camps…

— Lynsey Addario

Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror,…

— Allan Sekula

For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make…

— Giles Duley

Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the camera, takes…

— Tina Modotti