Photo Essay Quotes

I'm trying to grow more as a journalist and understand the story I'm photographing in order to communicate it in a better way.

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that is much looser than current events.

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.

As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you.

If you've got a camera, go to a war zone and tell a story.

'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.

I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive.

I like when an image could be just one of several others which would create a story. That you can imagine who are those people or what would happen before, what's going to be next; I like when there's a past and a future that we can imagine when we see photos.