Alex Webb Quotes

#1. Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Gautama Buddha

#2. I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere between the worlds of documentary and photojournalism (two very vague words) and the world of art. I think a lot of street photography falls into this nether area.

Alex Webb

#3. serve as the Find Amy Dunne

Gillian Flynn

#4. To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.

Alex Webb

#5. I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.

Alex Webb

#6. I'm not the same person I was. I'm fucked up." I give her a sideways glance. "I am," she says. "You haven't even scratched the surface."
"I find that most people worth knowing are fucked up in some way or another.

Jonathan Tropper

#7. I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.

Noel Gallagher

#8. Running through a lot of traditional photojournalism there is an overwhelming sense of ... pictures that say something, that define something. I'm not trying to define things. I'm trying to explore things. I'm trying to ask questions.

Alex Webb

#9. Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory.

Alex Webb

#10. If I see somebody dancing really well, it can make me want to dance. Or it could be the music. But perhaps the thing I miss the most is that when you're dancing, everyday concerns vanish. It's a unique world.

Damian Woetzel

#11. Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other rewards - recognition, financial remuneration - come to so few and are so fleeting ... Take photography on as a passion, not a career.

Alex Webb

#12. The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.

Alex Webb

#13. Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.

Alex Webb

#14. I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.

Alex Webb

#15. The possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the enigmas of photography.

Alex Webb

#16. You can't just bring a regular human here! What if the girl runs and tells the whole world on that Twitter thing about us?

L. Taylor

#17. Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.

Alex Webb

#18. Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.

Alex Webb

#19. Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault,

Yusef Komunyakaa

#20. I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back to this place, taking more pictures? What's the point of it? No one cares about it. I think I care about it but maybe I am deceiving myself.

Alex Webb