People Photography Quotes

People Photography Quote of the day

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.

Some people's photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that's fine. But that's not why I do them. I'm a gun for hire.

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.

Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.

People say photographs don't lie, mine do.

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.

I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how they think.

As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.

It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people who would love to put words in your mouth.

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time.