Stuart Franklin Quotes
Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is something we still don't understand.
We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner.
I love photographing. I love the experience of being around all the things that surround you when you go out to do work.
After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.
It's certainly important to include text beside documentary photographs. Furthermore, it's important to include text in a way that's useful and accessible.
It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.
