Quotes & Sayings About Photojournalists

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries. — Carol Ann Duffy

Even though we live in a world that people are much more conscience about being politically correct. The truth is if all children were taught from young (at home, church and school) that in our short existence on this planet, that we are all here to help humanity and to not hurt it and that hands are not for hurting but for trying to help all ... our world would be a much better place to live in. — Timothy Pina

Leadership success means your mission and vision must outlive you, but this will not happen by accident. We have enough stories around us to prove that lasting legacies have to be well managed, planned and structured for continuity. If not, you will carry your name, success and influence to the grave, only leaving short-lived memories of your achievements and impact. — Archibald Marwizi

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

Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference. — Brian Skerry

I hope you can find the healing power in grieving. — Mitch Albom

What's that expression? The devil you know is better than the one you don't? — Neal Shusterman

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

I'm not really a gamer. — David Duchovny

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate. — Lynsey Addario

He was telling me that our [country's] blood-soaked and atrocity-littered past was important but that the future didn't have to be its slave. — Wes Moore

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that. — Arif Ahmed

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

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

We're all photojournalists now. It's no longer enough just to write. — David Cronenberg

I can't believe the ignorance there, so I don't allow it to affect my life, I don't allow it to come into my zone, and it's not in my world, really. — Valerie June

The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it. — Zoey Deutch

Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies. — Paul Robeson

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking. — Dan Hill

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. — Eugene Richards

You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian. — Bill Eppridge

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

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