Discover visual and textual inspiration from 10 of today’s leading image-makers. These photographers offer insight into their craft, explaining why they take pictures and what it means to them.
鈥淚 think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing so.鈥 鈥 Gregory Crewdson.
鈥淢y desire is to preserve the sense of people鈥檚 lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.鈥 鈥 Nan Goldin.
“Photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.” 鈥 Carrie Mae Weems.
鈥淢y 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.鈥 鈥 Ryan McGinley
鈥淧hotography 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.鈥 鈥 Don McCullin.
鈥漌e hold the power to shift perceptions鈥 We are living in a global world, and the new generation should be part of shifting the photography world so that there is a global voice.鈥 鈥 A茂da Muluneh.
鈥淧hotography is a system of saving memories. It’s a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.鈥 鈥 Hiroshi Sugimoto.
鈥淚’m interested in the psychological truth more than the photographic truth.鈥 鈥 Hannah Starkey.
鈥淧hotographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.鈥 鈥 Sally Mann.
鈥淚 aim to visualise what a Black utopia looks like or could look like. People say utopia is never achievable, but I love the possibility that photography brings. It allows me to dream and make that dream become very real.鈥 鈥 Tyler Mitchell.
