Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.

David DuChemin
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. - Marc Riboud

  2. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. - Dorothea Lange

  3. When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not. - Aleksandar Hemon

  4. Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter. - Ansel Adams

  5. A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. - George Bernard Shaw

More Quotes By David DuChemin
  1. Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown.

  2. Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.

  3. It is the daily task of the creative to be curious and collect dots. The most creative people I know fill their brains, their idea factories, with as much raw material as they can. They have voracious appetites.

  4. Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.

  5. Slow down, take time, allow yourself to be wildly diverted from your plan. People are the soul of the place; don't forget to meet them and enjoy their company as you explore a place.

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