Category: thoughts

I try to be honest. Sometimes it is too sad. Now it’s Monday in the world. The beginning of the afternoon. June is building a forge. You must always keep an iron in the fire, my brother.

Robert Frank

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.

Robert Adams – from ‘Beauty in Photography’

Photography is simply a function of noticing things. All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice.

Elliott Erwitt

If art has a function it’s probably not social reform. I think it’s really more private than that. It’s to try to give people enough hope so that they have the courage to re-engage each day, as an individual, in their heart and thinking.

Robert Adams

I never had a “project.” I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes… I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see.

Helen Levitt