David Goldblatt

"My father regarded nationalism, including Zionism, as an evil and although he never attempted to convince me of his views, his logic, here, was inescapable."

"During those years color seemed too sweet a medium to express the anger, disgust and fear that apartheid inspired, ..."

"I’m a plodder. If you look back at my work, it’s a straight-line graph with a few bumps. I’ve been doing the same thing for 60 years. Today I’m doing exactly what I was doing in the years of apartheid…"

"I often wished during those years that I could be a lyricist with a camera. I took great delight in and many other photographers’ work. I envied them the freedom to photograph a landscape apparently w…"

"Differences are settled by talk. You don’t threaten with guns. You don’t threaten with fists. You don’t burn. You don’t destroy. You talk. These actions of the students are the antithesis of democrati…"

"...photographers shouldn’t confuse their response to the politics of the country with their role as photographers."