Air Quote by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

— Jim Fowler

! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I wanted to be a photographer first.

— Dylan Llewellyn

I first worked on sports photography, and it was until 2002, when I was already 32 years old, that I really started working and…

— Laurent Baheux

I had been teaching myself photography.

— Ree Drummond

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my…

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their…

— Ben Shahn

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

— Ori Gersht

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

— Nigel Dennis

When I first started working I was lucky enough to shoot a number of films abroad so I travelled quite extensively.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

— Shweta Tripathi