Catherine Opie
[Photographer, b. 1961, Sandusky, Ohio, lives in Los Angeles.]
So much of my obsession with being a documentarian comes from this deep-seated sense of the loss of time, and of how things shift so quickly.
Larry Clark
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1943, Tulsa, Oklahoma, lives in New York.]
... I wanted to be a storyteller, tell a story. Which I hate to even admit to now, because I hate photojournalism so badly.
Pieter Hugo
[Photographer, b. 1976, Johannesburg, South Africa, lives in Cape Town.]
I’m interested in photography because it sits somewhere between document and art.
Susan Meiselas
[Photographer, b. 1948, Baltimore, Maryland, lives in New York.]
If Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I’m sure I would have wanted to use it as a way of reporting directly from the streets during the insurrection.
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
No sophisticated sense of what photography is or can be will ever weaken the satisfactions of a picture of an unexpected event seized in mid-action by an alert photographer.
John Berger
[Writer and critic, b. 1926, London, d. 2017, Paris.]
If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
Michelangelo Antonioni
[Filmmaker, b. 1912, Ferrara, Italy, d. 2007, Rome.]
You cannot penetrate events with reportage.
Ken Domon
[Photographer, b. 1909, Sakata, Japan, d. 1990, Tokyo.]
If it is not realistic, it is not photography.
