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“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” quote by Steve McCurry — Download Open image

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.”

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I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

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To become a photographer leave your house first.

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If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view.

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A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at it again…

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If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

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A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

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