Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release…

- Douglas Mcculloh

A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.

- Douglas Mcculloh

Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with delibe…

- Douglas Mcculloh

To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.

- Douglas Mcculloh

Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

- Douglas Mcculloh

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

- Douglas Mcculloh

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

- Douglas Mcculloh

If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.

- Douglas Mcculloh