I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.

- Bruce Gilden

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph

- Bruce Gilden

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live wit…

- Bruce Gilden

I'm photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It's my take on the world.

- Bruce Gilden

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.

- Bruce Gilden

Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be.

- Bruce Gilden

There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while.

- Bruce Gilden