Photographer Quotes

Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth it's from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.
My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.
I always saw photography as a way to get to film.
I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.
I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.
A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.
Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography.
I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at what's in front of you.
I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.
Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.
Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.
My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it's more like a dance than anything else.
Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.
The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.
Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.
Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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