I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

- David Burnett

It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures you will be gla…

- David Burnett

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

- David Burnett

As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of almost everything else. I…

- David Burnett

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.

- David Burnett

The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty o…

- David Burnett

War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life …

- David Burnett

I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

- David Burnett

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

- David Burnett