Photojournalism Quotes

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The pictures are there, and you just take them.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

This idea of helping the next generation is a very intrinsic part of photojournalism. We need to continue to build this new group of photographers that come in and tell these stories.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.

I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.