Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color of these worlds. Searing light and intense color seemed somehow embedded in the cultures that I had begun working in, so utterly different from the gray-brown reticence of my New England background. Since then, I have worked predominantly in color.
... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of … - Alex Webb
... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of …
- Alex Webb
Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place. - Alex Webb
Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.
My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is that he felt that color came out of … - Alex Webb
My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is that he felt that color came out of …
Running through a lot of traditional photojournalism there is an overwhelming sense of... pictures that say something, that define something. I'm not… - Alex Webb
Running through a lot of traditional photojournalism there is an overwhelming sense of... pictures that say something, that define something. I'm not…
The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is. - Alex Webb
The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.
I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait … - Alex Webb
I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait …
To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play. - Alex Webb
To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.
Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a stre… - Alex Webb
Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a stre…
Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other re… - Alex Webb
Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other re…
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