Eugene Richards Quotes

• I can photograph someone if I can touch them.

  Eugene Richards

  Photograph, Ifs, I Can

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• War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.

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  War, People, Stories

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• It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.

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  Photography, Opportunity, People

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• That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course a year later that's not the way it is. Life moves on and the picture stays. That can be a wonderful idea to be a part of history and on the other hand, you think pictures have a life that they don't have.

  Eugene Richards

  Fotografía, Moverse, Pensar

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• I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job.

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  Hurt, Jobs, Grieving

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• ...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents of genocide, by hunger. A more realistic assessment of photography's value is to point out that it is illustrative of what's going on, that it provides a record of history, that photographs can prompt dialogue.

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  Photography, War, Believe

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• Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters, whose job it is to document what's going down, most of us go out in the world expecting to give form to the magazine, or to newspaper editor's ideas, using what's become over the years a pretty standardized visual language. So we search for what is instantly recognizable, supportive of the text, easiest to digest, or most marketable - more mundane realities be damned.

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  Jobs, Real, Editors

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• There's never a time that I'm not intrusive. That's the base of what we - photographers - do: we're intrusive. Anyone saying the opposite is silly. There's a process and a means of getting to know people and getting them to trust you, but I'm always very aware that I'm visiting - that I'm there, that I have a responsibility, but I am intrusive.

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  Silly, Mean, Responsibility

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Elegí ser fotógrafo hace veintidós años, pero no sé si volvería a hacer esa elección. A principios de los ochenta, aún pensaba que lo hacía bien, intentando ordenar y dar forma al mundo con mi cámara. Ahora que sé un poco más sobre la vida y la muerte, sobre nuestro planeta y sus complejos problemas, me siento mucho menos cómodo con mis imágenes de personas. Aun así, no tengo ni idea de qué más hacer.

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  Two, Order, Years

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• My biggest problem is I'm so uninteresting that all these people forget I'm around.

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  People, Problem, Forget

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• Approaching people is not - it's ironic that it's what I do - but it's not necessarily what I enjoy doing. Later on, I'm fine. Once we get talking I have a great time but not in the beginning.

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  People, Ironic, Enjoy

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