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If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

Topics: Home, Firsts, Want, Leaving Home

quote a picture can express a universal humanism or simply reveal a delicate and poignant steve mccurry Quotes

I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.

If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view.

Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.

Topics: Photography, People, Soul, Peeking

What matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.

source: - "Iconic Photographer Steve McCurry Talks Blogging and WordPress". Interview with Paul Gillin, www.socialmediatoday.com. December 8, 2012.

Topics: What Matters, Feelings, Matter

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

source: - "Steve McCurry’s Photographs Of His Travels Will Give You The Chills" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

Topics: Inspirational, Needs, Cameras, Inspiring Photography, Street Photography

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.

Topics: Powerful, Single Mom, Unique, Frozen In Time

What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together coherently. But what matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.

source: - "Iconic Photographer Steve McCurry Talks Blogging and WordPress". Interview with Paul Gillin, www.socialmediatoday.com. December 8, 2012.

Topics: What Matters, Feelings, Important

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. Whether you're photographing for yourself, for your job, whether you photograph on the weekends or everyday or once in a while, the main point is having fun and to be exercising your curiosity and to be really in love with what you are doing.

Topics: Photography, Jobs, Fun

Some of the great pictures happen along the journey and not necessarily at your destination.

Topics: Journey, Destination

In our contemporary society, one so over-inundated with imagery, it is easy to overlook the power of a single frame to change the way we look at the world, or rally disparate hearts to a single cause. Yet, ours is a society shaped by this very phenomenon.

Topics: Heart, Looks, World, Contemporary Society

For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope (...)Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was that I was involved in the fundamentals of life.

Topics: Years, Long, Fundamentals, Monsoons

A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at it again and again. Because it is that frozen moment. I think it tends to burn into your psyche. It becomes ingrained in your mind. A powerful picture becomes iconic of a place or a time or a situation.

Topics: Wall, Powerful, Thinking, Your Wall

A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

Topics: Might, Poignant, Unnoticed, Slice Of Life, Humanism

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph

Topics: Want, Photographer, Photograph

The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.

Topics: Definitions, Forget, Forget It

It’s important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you, and not what others think is important for you.

source: - "Iconic Photographer Steve McCurry Talks Blogging and WordPress". Interview with Paul Gillin, www.socialmediatoday.com. December 8, 2012.

Topics: Thinking, Important, Needs, Things That Matter

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story.

Topics: People, Stories, Photographer

In India in particular, where millions have no home but the streets, virtually every life event is carried out in public: prayer, eating, sleeping, nursing, crude dentistry, even bodily functions. In the secular West, where nothing is sacred, everything seems hidden; yet in Asia, where nothing is hidden, everything is sacred.

Topics: Prayer, Home, Sleep, Bodily Functions, Dentistry

Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.

Topics: Thinking, Expression, Watches

To become a photographer leave your house first.

Topics: House, Firsts, Photographer

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