Roger Ballen
[Photographer, b. 1950, New York, lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.]
My purpose in taking photographs over the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.
Nikki S. Lee
[Photographer, b. 1970, Kye-Chang, Korea, lives in New York.]
Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn’t mean I’m a photographer.
D.H. Lawrence
[Writer, b. 1885, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, d. 1930, Vence, France.]
The identifying of ourselves with the visual image of ourselves has become an instinct; the habit is already old. The picture of me, the me that is
seen, is me.
(1925)
Luigi Ghirri
[Photographer, b. 1943, Scandiano, Italy, d. 1992, Reggio Emilia, Italy.]
The meaning that I am trying to render through my work is a verification of how it is still possible to desire and face a path of knowledge, to be able finally to distinguish the precise identity of man, things, life, from the image of man, things, and life.
Peter Bunnell
[Writer and photo historian, b. 1937, Poughkeepsie, New York, lives in Princeton, New Jersey.]
You see in the photograph what you are.
Minor White
[Photographer, writer, and theorist, b. 1908, Minneapolis, Minnesota, d. 1976, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say—himself.
Eddie Adams
[Photojournalist, b. 1933, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, d. 2004, New York.]
All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.
Minor White
[Photographer, writer, and theorist, b. 1908, Minneapolis, Minnesota, d. 1976, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
Self-discovery through a camera? I am scared to look for fear of discovering how shallow my Self is!
