If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something ha…

- Luc Delahaye

I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any vi…

- Luc Delahaye

There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.

- Luc Delahaye

Photojournalism is neither photography or journalism. It has its function but it's not where I see myself: the press is for me just a means for photo…

- Luc Delahaye

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

- Luc Delahaye

I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I ju…

- Luc Delahaye

There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.

- Luc Delahaye

The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojo…

- Luc Delahaye

You have to record as many details as possible and achieve an order, without taking away the complexity of the real. To voice the real and at the sam…

- Luc Delahaye