Ray Metzker Quotes

#1. I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to discover.

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#2. I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me.

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#3. I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations ... I have always been interested in everyman - average, ordinary people in everyday situations.

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#4. A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation ... You have to break something down in order to have the parts synthesize.

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#5. Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

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#6. The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.

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#7. What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.

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