I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Germany led the world in photography and film: 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' and 'Metropolis' are works that, to this day, film buffs revere.
I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.
I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems obvious that photography has undergone dramatic changes in its technical, cultural, and critical composition.
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot.
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.