Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd ven…

- Philip Jones Griffiths

The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.

- Philip Jones Griffiths

The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys Jones. He projected the picture …

- Philip Jones Griffiths

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attri…

- Philip Jones Griffiths

Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race. If that's all your d…

- Philip Jones Griffiths

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

- Philip Jones Griffiths

Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.

- Philip Jones Griffiths

When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found this plausible. Bu…

- Philip Jones Griffiths

The ability to keep things in perspective is very important for a journalist. In a tense situation you need the ability to be there, yet somehow step…

- Philip Jones Griffiths