Peter Menzel Quotes

• Do something you like that you feel is important. Don't worry about making money at it right away. If you try hard and long enough you will figure out a way to do it. Better to die happy than die rich.

  Peter Menzel

  Long, Worry, Important

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• Vivimos en una sociedad capitalista idiota y autoindulgente en la que la vida sexual de una estrella del pop es más importante que la inminente hambruna, las minas terrestres y los niños soldado en África, o más interesante que el mayor desastre natural provocado por el hombre en los campos petrolíferos de Oriente Próximo.

  Peter Menzel

  Sex, Stars, Children

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• Pre-planning is essential. Research, research, research. If you are going to do a portrait, know as much as you can about the person beforehand. The web makes this very easy.

  Peter Menzel

  Portraits, Essentials, Research

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• The fact that a thirteen-year-old project still resonates and can still have a large exhibit with lots of newspaper, magazine and TV press shows the timelessness of the project.

  Peter Menzel

  Years, Magazines, Facts

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• Think about the photo you want to make beforehand. Then do it, but also don't be blind to better options that present themselves at the location. Be flexible, and be patient. Leave ego at home. Get the photo before you yell at the asshole, not after.

  Peter Menzel

  Home, Thinking, Ego

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• I fell in love with traveling and thought being a photographer would be an interesting way to travel and make a living.

  Peter Menzel

  Interesting, Would Be, Way

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• It is so much better to get the right exposure than to have to mess around later with Photoshop.

  Peter Menzel

  Exposure, Photoshop, Mess

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• Having a partner who is your wife traveling with you can be great. We each have our roles in the work and then can help each other out on the emotional front when things get stressful, which they are.

  Peter Menzel

  Emotional, Wife, Roles

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• With the Internet, you can get lots of info in advance, but a local person who knows how to work the system is invaluable.

  Peter Menzel

  Internet, Persons, Know How

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• To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known photographers who didn't speak the language and would work in a place for weeks without one, getting by on common sense and smiles. But how many situations did they miss because they couldn't talk to someone and get the back story on details, small daily life things, etc.

  Peter Menzel

  Common Sense, Missing, Important

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• Los europeos siguen leyendo en lugar de ver la televisión o escuchar a su clérigo decirles cómo votar. Las revistas europeas son muy superiores a las estadounidenses en contenido y número de lectores, pero la televisión está reduciendo su difusión incluso en Europa.

  Peter Menzel

  Europe, Listening, Watching Tv

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• As a senior in high school my counselor recommended that I soften my science and math direction with an art course. Fortunately my high school offered a new course in B&W photography, so I opted for that instead of art, towards which I had an aversion. Composition is something that comes pretty naturally to me and I appreciate ordered chaos: the photo class turned out to be fun.

  Peter Menzel

  Senior, Photography, Art

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• It's important to get a translator who will ask the questions in a sensitive and thoughtful way. Knowing the ethnicity issues, the tribal issues in some places...who your translator is can mean a lot.

  Peter Menzel

  Mean, Thoughtful, Ethnicity

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• After I discovered my degree in photojournalism would only get me a job in a camera store, I taught myself lighting. I read tons of magazines and books and studied the photos trying to figure out how they were done. I bought some flash equipment and played around until I figured out how to make a subject look as I envisioned it should look.

  Peter Menzel

  Jobs, Book, Trying

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• I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry for the Jabba the Hut types who can't do this. Once an obese student told me that he wanted to be a war photographer. I said, "Really?" and then I shot him.

  Peter Menzel

  Sorry, War, Moving

  "Interview with Peter Menzel and Faith DAluisio". Interview with Philip Greenspun, www.photo.net. April, 2007.

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• Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.

  Peter Menzel

  Sleep, Night, Ninety Nine

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• Everyone should understand that getting good photos is paramount to everything. You have to do what it takes and often comfort and sleep are the first casualties of an assignment.

  Peter Menzel

  Sleep, Comfort, Firsts

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• It is tough being patient when you are more than a half million dollars in debt.

  Peter Menzel

  Dollars, Debt, Half

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• Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.

  Peter Menzel

  War, Kuwait, Firsts

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• I don't shoot many corporate or commercial jobs, but when you do, you had better have someone helping who has done it before.

  Peter Menzel

  Jobs, Done, Helping

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• Los globos aerostáticos son magníficos para disparar, aunque se han vuelto muy caros, al igual que la mayoría del alojamiento y la comida en el valle de Napa.

  Peter Menzel

  Air, Hot, Valleys

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• The summer of 1966, I hitch-hiked alone for two months all over Europe instead of working on a farm in Spain. It was a big game to see how much I could see on $400. This got me hooked on traveling.

  Peter Menzel

  Summer, Europe, Games

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• Scientists are usually nice, organized, logical people who are very cooperative. I always learn a lot of science while shooting science stories and it helps to be able to speak intelligently to a subject about his or her field of work, i.e., do your homework before the photography.

  Peter Menzel

  Photography, Nice, People

  "Interview with Peter Menzel and Faith DAluisio". Interview with Philip Greenspun, www.photo.net. April 2007.

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• Everyone thinks it would be great to work for National Geographic. So did I.

  Peter Menzel

  Thinking, Would Be, National Geographic

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• I have a completely worthless degree: a BS in Photojournalism from Boston University (BU). With this degree, I suppose I could have gotten a job teaching grade school kids how to photograph their relatives, but knowing about B&W photo processing and developing and how to shoot a picture story is good basic info that every photographer should have.

  Peter Menzel

  Jobs, Teaching, School

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