In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.
I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.
Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.
I pay a lot of attention to composition in my art, and I will often shift myself or change a pose according to the golden triangle rule of photography composition.
I was born in Seoul, South Korea; then I moved to New York City at the age of seventeen. In New York, I studied art and photography. I thought I would be a painter; then I saw Walker Evans when I was in college, and that had a great impact on me. Being in the darkroom making B&W prints was such a magical experience.
Photography must be integrated with the story.
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
Photography helps people to see.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
As the oldest I was a daddy's girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean.
The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.
Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.
As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't even know it anymore.
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate.
I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.
I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
I had been teaching myself photography.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music.
Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.
To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.
There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.
