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My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.

My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know who this person was, they could take one of these pictures and it would tell who the person was.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

My mantra is, 'This or something better.'

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking. At such times, I rely on intuitive, perceptual responses to guide me, using reason only after the final print is made to accept or reject the results of my work.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.

No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

Now everyone's main objective of taking photographs is to have a photograph for Twitter or Facebook. I find that troubling. If you have an opportunity to meet the Dalai Lama, don't work out your camera or iPhone issues. Sit and a listen to what the man is saying, because nine times out of 10, you're not going to look at that photo. You're not going to look at the video. As a photographer, I don't carry a camera. I have my iPhone, but I don't carry a camera. I want to live.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Of course it's all luck.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

Only photograph what you love.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

Only capitalists get photographers.

On my YouTube channel, I put up 3-4 videos a week, and I spend a lot of money to maintain that content. When I travel, I travel with a videographer and a photographer no matter what.

People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of war and at that time, I wanted to be a war photographer, based off his work.

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

Photographer's advice: Stand in the right place.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.

Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to people, you don't need to push people around.

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.