John Pfahl Quotes

People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.

While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view.

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.