I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas; and I'm also proposing to …

- Gilles Peress

I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collect…

- Gilles Peress

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

- Gilles Peress

I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.

- Gilles Peress

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?

- Gilles Peress

We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic…

- Gilles Peress

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

- Gilles Peress

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

- Gilles Peress