Quotes on Street Photography

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.