Photojournalist

🇬🇧Don McCullin

Journalism

b. 1935

"Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures."

🇩🇪Neo Rauch

Art

New Leipzig School

b. 1960

"For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means."

🇺🇸Dith Pran

Journalism

1942–2008

"Dith Pran character entry at the Internet Movie Database"

🇺🇸Manuel Rivera-Ortiz

Art

b. 1968

"I make images of the living for the living. I try to celebrate life. Iconic photographer Dorothea Lange, once said ‘I too have come to lend my voice to those least able to have a voice of their own.’ I agree."

🇫🇷Henri Cartier-Bresson

Art

humanistic photography

1908–2004

"We had a certain idea of our work, a respect for others, and above all, not to be paparazzi. For the photographer, curiosity is essential, the terrible counterpart is indiscretion, which is a lack of restraint."

🇩🇪E. Lee Spence

Art

b. 1947

"Hours of research can cut months of field work."

🇺🇸Chip Berlet

Journalism

1949–2026

"Ace R. Hayes, "Berlet for Beginners", Portland Free Press, July/August 1995"

🇺🇸Dorothea Lange

Journalism

social realism

1895–1965

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."

🇺🇸Maynard Owen Williams

Journalism

1888–1963

"There is drama in the very air of the place, and I want to be there recording it for the Geographic."

🇺🇸Gordon Parks

Entertainment

social realism

1912–2006

"That disadvantage sometimes pushes you, you know, if you use it right, because you want to rid yourself of those things that hurt you emotionally when you're coming up."

🇺🇸Candice Bergen

Law

b. 1946

"Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans."

🇮🇷Abbas Kiarostami

Entertainment

1940–2016

"The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual."

🇭🇺Robert Capa

Journalism

Realism

1913–1954

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough."

🇫🇷Marc Riboud

Art

1923–2016

"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."

"Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something more, and that Something More is what life is really all about."