Chasing LightWelcome. This is where I share my work and also the work of others, those that inspire me, the weird, the great, the unusual.
It is a goddamn marvel this life. Take a look.
Richard Dumas | Portraits
[I am a] photographer rather than portraitist. To be able to be a portraitist one must be a photographer and I do not just take portraits, I also do other forms of photography as well.
Watabe Yukichi | A Criminal Investigation
The cinematic quality, the heavy noir tone, the procedural elements of the investigation harken to the great Hollywood noir classics but especially to the Kurosawa police procedurals, High and Low and Stray Dog.
Hiroshi Watanabe | Rikishi (2005)
I am not sure if I am successful professional photographer. If “successful professional” means I can live a good, somewhat luxurious, life by the profession, then I am certainly not.
– Hiroshi Watanabe
Joel Meyerowitz | Taking My Time
He shoots with both a 35 mm camera and a large format Deardorff 20×25. Few photographers are capable of working in these formats, the two being quite different languages.
Jaime Permuth | Yonkeros
This book is entitled “Yonkeros” after the vernacular term that describes businesses that specialize in junk and scrap metal.
Some Well-worn Leicas
This M3 was used by Henri Cartier-Bresson from end of 1960 until about 1968 when he gave it to Inge Morath.
André Kertész | The Fork
I am an amateur and intend to remain one my whole life long. I attribute to photography the task of recording the real nature of things, their interior, their life.
Robert Frank | Paris New Year, 1949
…if one is sensitive, it has an effect on you. So maybe it’s better not to be sensitive as a photographer and just go on. Many photographers today have that but I never had that. I think it’s nice to be sensitive as a photographer and maybe it’s harder.
Richard Avedon | Ezra Pound
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
-Ezra Pound
Gordon Parks | Long Haired Furs
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
-Gordon Parks
Helmut Newton | Fuck you money
Helmut Newton said that looking back, he admitted that he had sold his soul “like a whore.”
William Carlos Williams | This Is Just To Say
Two interesting portraits of Williams to contrast, only three years apart, both for Life Magazine.
Sebastião Salgado | Churchgate Station
I only work only in 35mm format. I have a small bag so I can carry all my films with me for one or two months. That means I am completely independent and free.
-Sebastião Salgado
Irving Penn | Lisa Fonssagrives
“It is always the dress; it is never, never the girl. I’m just a good clothes hanger.”
— Lisa Fonssagrives
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Capa & Chim
Ellen von Unwerth | Audrey Tautou
I’m into capturing the moment. Sometimes, I’ll rip the camera out of my assistant’s hands and he’ll be shouting, “But there’s no film in the camera!” and I think, “Never mind! Let’s go.
André Kertész | The Place de la Concorde , Paris, 1928
Look at the atmosphere, the reflection. Why did I do it this way? Instinct. I have no other explanation. The subject offered itself to me and I took advantage.
Bruce Davidson | East 100th Street
My true love is silver gelatin. My history in photography, which spans over fifty years, it is all basically silver gelatin. In my imagination there’s nothing more beautiful than a beautifully printed 11×14 print on good paper.
William Eggleston | Memphis (Tricycle)
A picture is what it is and I’ve never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words.
Philip Jones Griffiths | England, 1964
Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist.