"Photography is not objective, it is deeply subjective...my photography consistent ideologically and ethically with the person I am." - Sebastiao Salgado
"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)
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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
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Everyone needs a USP [unique selling proposition] - Perou
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"Photography is not a job...its a lifestyle" - Perou
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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak" - Hans Hofmann, 20th-century painter.
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“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
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"Treat your model as an actor, not as a model" - Israel Rivera
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“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
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"I'm not here to compete, but to create." - Sue Bryce
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"Light for the subject, not the trend." - Tim Tadder
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Quote for the evening, My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. - Richard Avedon
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