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© Robert Frank: Books and Films, 1947–2016
Mass production of uninspired photojournalism and photography without thought becomes anonymous merchandise.
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© Leonard Freed
Ultimately photography is about who you are. It’s the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.
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Robert Frank in Mabou, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2014. (DoDo Jin Ming)
The eye should learn to listen before it looks.
The Making of Photobooks: Insight From Kehrer Verlag’s Acquisitions Editor
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Selfie by Lilian Bassman ©Lilian Bassman
When I photograph I project what I’m not. What I like to be.
The Complete Works of Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham (April 12, 1883 – June 23, 1976) was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes.
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© Bruno Barbey: Naples, 1964
Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.
Q&A with MoMA Photography Curator Sarah Meister
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© Laura Gilpin
The greatest tool at our command is the very thing that is photography. Light, Light is our paint brush and it is a most willing tool in the hands of the one who studies it with a sufficient care.
The jury on the six nominees for the World Press Photo of the Year
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© Ernst Haas, Self-Portrait, Nevada 1960
I am not interested in shooting new things, I am interested to see things new.
A Celebration of Black Women in Photojournalism
"The Still Present" by Luisa Nolasco

Luisa Nolasco was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is currently doing a MA in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at the University of Westminster, in London.
Having studied Social Communications, she began taking pictures at the age of 16, after buying her first camera. As a documentary photographer, Luisa develops images that speak both to her and to others about what is happening out there in the world. Part of her process before taking pictures is to observe people. Luisa wants to capture simple moments of the day to day life and traditions that sometimes seem to be forgotten or are not paid attention to.

Guest Blog post by Luisa Nolasco:
My interest in photography has always been to talk about time through images. I am concerned to understand what time means.
In a world that is buckling under the weight of profit-making and overrun by the power-hunger of globalization, it seems like time has become something rare. If everything is moving faster and faster how is it possible to slow down? This is why I decided to create a photographic experiment on how to freeze time, or to simply make it repeatedly continuous, rolling still. "The Still Present" is a body of work in which I photographed the tube: always at the same time, on the same seat and at the same station, everyday, for a month. I did this because it takes away the feeling of overflowing information, it creates a common and familiar environment, making both me and the viewer more comfortable.
I picked the tube as my working place for two main reasons:
- Firstly, because it is a fast-paced environment – and my will to go against it.
- Secondly for being a reasonably controlled space to explore, or what Marc Auge calls a “a non-place”:
"A person entering the space of non-place is relieved of his usual determinants. He becomes no more than what he does or experiences in the role of passenger. Perhaps he is still weighed down by the previous days worries, the next day concerns, but he is distanced from them temporarily by the environment of the moment. Subjected to a gentle form of possession, he tastes for a while the passive joys of identity loss. What reigns there is actually, the urgency of the present moment." _Marc Auge
Within the broad subject that time is how many paths can we take? How many projects can unfold from it?
I guess this is up to us; writers, sculptures, photographers, painters...

Website: https://luisanolasco.com
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© Cecil Beaton
Be daring,
Be different,
Be impractical,
Be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and
imaginative vision
against
the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace,
the slave of the ordinary.
Renée C. Byer on the Art of Photojournalism
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try - you simply must do.
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The only way to do great work is to love what you do!
Celebrating Women Photographers
On International Women’s Day, Photoshelter wanted to recognize women behind the lens — and the women whose stories they tell. These are stories about resilience, about confidence, about leadership, and about strength.
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© Photo by Lee Miller
It seems to me that women have a bigger chance at success in photography than men… Women are quicker and more adaptable than men. And I think they have an intuition that helps them understand personalities more quickly than men