I pay a lot of attention to composition in my art, and I will often shift myself or change a pose according to the golden triangle rule of photography composition.
One advantage of photography is that it’s visual and can transcend language.
I consider myself very lucky. I’m known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.
War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can’t miss it.
I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
I love football, but I’m also very passionate about photography and film.
Photography is very personal to me. God knows how many rolls of film I have that I’ve never shared.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
I was born in the ’60s and grew up in the ’70s – not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion – all creative skills… all apart from cooking.
Photography can be a way into worlds and memories that words sometimes fail to convey.
I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I’m a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It’s a very solitary, quiet life when I’m not working.
I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.
I love photography – I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn’t something I needed other people’s permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it’s good to capture people when they are themselves.
I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot.
I have a cartoon I’m developing with Adult Swim called ‘Monster Town U.S.A.,’ so I’m busy doing that. Trying to do a coffee-table book of my photography that’s been requested of me a couple of times. I’m constantly busy.
I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It’s not just photography I’m talking about. It’s about whatever dream you want it to be.
I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification – and photography can provide me with that – but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.
I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera – so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.
Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.
TV-makers usually don’t know much about photography.
Once you make decisions, you can’t go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all the possibilities and make the one possibility work the best for you, so you have to become very creative with the direction you’ve chosen.
Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.
Increasingly, the work I’m doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I’m trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do – that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
I was born in Seoul, South Korea; then I moved to New York City at the age of seventeen. In New York, I studied art and photography. I thought I would be a painter; then I saw Walker Evans when I was in college, and that had a great impact on me. Being in the darkroom making B&W prints was such a magical experience.
Growing up, I didn’t give my grandfather’s photography a second thought. I wasn’t involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
I love creating. I had been really into photography when I was in college.
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
The digital camera takes photographs in practically no light: it will dig out the least bit of light available. I was amazed to see the results of photographs that I wouldn’t take ordinarily. That’s the advantage of digital photography.
Light field photography unleashes the power of the light, to forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures.
I’ve always been super into photography and the visuals that support my music.
First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.
We’re not going the photography route. I think there is a real distinction between photos and images, and Flickr is for photos, and Instagram is for photos. You wouldn’t put a filter on a meme; you’d put a filter on top of a photo that came from your camera.
When I was a kid, I loved photography, and I loved makeup.
I’ve grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand how it worked, and I’ve been fortunate enough to be photographed by some really wonderful photographers, and so I learnt a lot from them, and I always ask them questions.
I really respect fashion, but I don’t follow trends to be honest, I’m much more into skateboarder style clothes, but I really like fashion photography, portraits, and stuff like that.
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
Since high school, I’ve always been super into photography. I event went to Valley College for photography.
My first pictures are from 1972, and my first proper camera dates back to 1973. During the first year I used my father’s camera. It had a flash on it, which I don’t like, but I didn’t know anything about photography back then, so it was just what I did.
I enjoy photography. It’s a lot of fun. It keeps me on my P’s and Q’s and, when you think about it, most people think photography is just going to a game. But you start to think, dang, that would be a good picture. Or you’re driving along and see something and think, ‘that would be nice.’
If I had to start over, I’d pursue photography – probably to the exclusion of acting.
For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don’t do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you.
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it’s not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!
Music, photography, media, film – it’s all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.
Wildlife photography takes a long time because you have to wait for things to happen.
So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.
I don’t like how women’s bodies are Page 3 news. I just don’t think that’s big news. Women’s bodies are women’s bodies, and that’s that. And I love to see beautiful – the female form in great art and great photography.
Painting, drawing – I’m really into photography, I’ve done it since high school.
It was only after a while, after photographing mines and clear-cutting of forests in Maine, that I realized I was looking at the components of photography itself. Photography uses paper made from trees, water, metals, and chemistry. In a way, I was looking at all these things that feed into photography.
Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water’s surface, less precise but more profoundly true.
I’ve always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.
My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I’ve done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.
‘Power’ usually starts principal photography around mid September, and the first table read is always like one big family reunion. The most common comment we hear is how ‘well rested’ everyone looks… something that can’t be said by the end of the season.
