Quotes About Photojournalists

#1. Among photojournalists there is still a sense that doing a photomontage is far graver than adding a filter. I am against this type of hierarchy that demonizes some options over others, demonizes them in respect to, what - ideology or moral code?

Joan Fontcuberta

#2. All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

Christina Ricci

#3. As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images ... We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#4. The only person who can really motivate you is you.

Shaquille O'Neal

#5. Without death Death is dead

Silje Akselberg Iversen

#6. I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

Nathan Fillion

#7. We're all photojournalists now. It's no longer enough just to write.

David Cronenberg

#8. I am sorry about your female partner. For what it is worth, the sociocultural rituals of your society seem to be in conflict with biological reality." I

Jaroslav Kalfar

#9. To experience positive/healthy emotions you don't need a big house or a nice car or a managerial job or a million dollar in your bank.

Maddy Malhotra

#10. 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

#11. You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.

Bill Eppridge

#12. I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

Lynsey Addario

#13. Research is the highest form of adoration

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#14. By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world's most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.

George Gilder

#15. I don't want you to understand the details. To feel how it feels, you just have to be on the ground with the people. That's where photojournalists have a lot of magic.

Shaul Schwarz

#16. Truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.

Andy Grundberg

#17. Bob exploded. 'There is no such thing as a casual conversation with my mother. Every single word will be twisted recognition until before you know it you're playing Russian roulette in a wind tunnel with a psychotic dwarf, having wagered your birthright for a piece of cheese ...

Meg Rosoff

#18. Miwanzo is the word in Swahili for "beginnings." But sometimes everything has to end first and the bottom drop out and every light fizzle and die before a proper beginning can come along.

Paula McLain

#19. Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.

Brian Skerry

#20. We do what our rising-star photographer failed to do. What all photojournalists fail to do. We go get her out of that death of a life before she dies.

Lidia Yuknavitch