Sebastiao Salgado Quote

"Photography is not objective, it is deeply subjective...my photography consistent ideologically and ethically with the person I am."

- Sebastiao Salgado

In praise of Shadows – Junichiro Tanizaki Quote

"Darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is set upon always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamps, from oil lamps to gaslight, and on to the electrical one. His quest for better light never ends, he spares no pains to eradicate even the slightest of shadows"

- Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows (1933)

Steven Shore Quote

It seems to me that a good photographer is a combination of two things: one is interesting perceptions and the other is an understanding of how the world is translated by a camera into a photograph. You have to have something to communicate. But you also have to have a real understanding of the tools of communication in photography: that you are taking a three-dimensional world that flows in time and are going through this transformative process of making this flat, bounded, static object.

- Steven Shore

Everyone needs a USP – Quote

Everyone needs a USP [unique selling proposition]

- Perou

Perou Quote

"Photography is not a job...its a lifestyle" - Perou

Hans Hofmann, 20th-Century Painter – Quote

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak"

- Hans Hofmann, 20th-century painter.

Henri Cartier Bresson Quote

“Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.”

~ Henri Cartier Bresson

Israel Rivera Quote

"Treat your model as an actor, not as a model"

- Israel Rivera

Irene Kung Quote

“I love the dark that permits me to illuminate what I like. Dreaming with my eyes open I can look behind the corner. When bad reality rises, the dream that saves you also rises.”

- Irene Kung

Sue Bryce Quote

"I'm not here to compete, but to create." - Sue Bryce

Tim Tadder Quote

"Light for the subject, not the trend."

- Tim Tadder

Richard Avedon Quote III

Quote for the evening, My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

- Richard Avedon

Erik Almas Quote

"The more you make it...the more personal it becomes."

- Erik Almas

Chuck Close Quote

"I always thought that inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. You sign onto a process and see where it takes you. You don't have to invent the wheel every day. Today you'll do what you did yesterday and tomorrow you'll do what you did today. Eventually you'll get somewhere. Every great idea I ever had grew out of work itself. If you’re going to wait a around for the clouds to open up and lightning to strike you in the brain you’re not going to make an awful lot of work."

- Chuck Close

Henry David Thoreau Quote

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

- Henry David Thoreau

Norman Jean Roy Quote

“A great portrait needs to first grab you and then let you sit in there and continue to draw you in. [Whereas] with a lot of fashion photography, it really hits you hard and then it slowly fades away."

- Norman Jean Roy

Walker Evans Quote

"First of all, I tell them (students) that art can't be taught, but that it can be stimulated and a few barriers can be kicked down by a talented teacher, and an atmosphere can be created which is an opening into artistic action. But the thing itself is such a secret and so unapproachable. And you can't put talent into anybody."

- Walker Evans

Eryk Fitkau Quote

"A photograph does not speak, it does not smell, it makes no sound, it does not move, it is just a two dimensional piece of paper, but a good photograph can do at least one if not all of the above!"

- Eryk Fitkau

Peter Coulson Quote

"Real beauty is on the inside, be the best you can be and if you do it a lot you will get better, do on to others, pay it forward, and in the words of Natascha... believe and achieve.”

- Peter Coulson

Ansel Adams Quote

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”

- Ansel Adams