I’m a New Yorker. I don’t believe in air unless I can see it.
Light gesture and color of the key compliments of any photograph. Light and color are obvious, but it is just her that is the most important. There is gesture in everything. It’s up to you to find a gesture that is most telling.
If you’re not shooting in the right direction, it doesn’t matter how well you’re shooting.
Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.
Never say you’re going back – SHOOT IT NOW!
Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot.
Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I’ll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.
I don’t see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
A photographer’s art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.
Don’t overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it’s fun, shoot it. If you’ve never seen it before, shoot it.
We don’t experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
Gesture is not always action.
It’s my obligation to take out all the ‘wrong’ pictures.
You have to pick the right tool for the point you’re trying to make and there is no one solution.
Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don’t find the connection between our work and our own motivations.
The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.
You need minimum color for maximum effect.
Color really doesn’t have interaction if it’s full of colors. It’s the interaction or relationship among or between colors that makes a color image. This usually happens with a few colors, not a glut of them.
Forget what it was. Look at what it is.