A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.
The bohar snapper - they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear - they are much scarier than the sharks.
Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
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.
I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.
As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.
For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.
I think all of the directors I've worked with are mostly curious about the time I had on 'Eyes Wide Shut.' They really just want to know about it. They're all fans of Kubrick.
It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.
And I figured that he can be my ears and I can be his eyes. A good trade-off, don't you think?
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
